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It's the sad state of affair in "trusted" App Stores. Little Snitch is the first app I install on every machine. I look forward to a day when network access bec

It's the sad state of affair in "trusted" App Stores. Little Snitch is the first app I install on every machine. I look forward to a day when network access becomes a permission a sandbox app asks for.

drb91 8y ago
Sadly, I don’t see Apple making any moves in this direction, probably because advertising is an extremely popular form of revenue these days. It’d be rather awkward explaining why they enable these controls on the computer but they don’t allow them on iOS.
- scarface74 8y ago
  You mean like Apple not having a built in content blocking framework for Safari? https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/ContentBlocker.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...
  - drb91 8y ago
    It doesn't apply to native apps.... IIRC they've even removed ad-blocking vpn software recently: https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/200903/apple-no-longer-accepting-vpn-based-ad-blockers-to-app-store-report-says https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/200903/apple-no-l...
    - scarface74 8y ago
      There are so many bad actors when it comes to VPN software ad blockers it wasn’t worth the risk. VPNs are allowed and are natively supported, but I wouldn’t trust a random third party VPN. If it were that important to me on iOS, I would host my own VPN server and just use the native support. https://www.imore.com/how-configure-vpn-access-your-iphone-or-ipad https://www.imore.com/how-configure-vpn-access-your-iphone-o... But honestly, I hate ad supported software. Either give me away to remove ads via an in app purchase or I’ll just delete the app. I bought an iOS device partially because I prefer the simple transaction model of giving Apple money and they give me stuff without subsidizing the purchase price with ads and invasive tracking.
    - scarface74 8y ago
      I forgot to mention. Many “VPN apps” for iOS don’t do anything special except for automatically configuring VPN settings. As the article above stated, you can do the same thing manually by going to settings. The VPN providers can sell services off the App Store and document the manual setup process.
saagarjha 8y ago
> I look forward to a day when network access becomes a permission a sandbox app asks for. This is something that the sandbox model already supports, but is granted by default to apps under the default profile for App Store apps.

drb91 8y ago

Sadly, I don’t see Apple making any moves in this direction, probably because advertising is an extremely popular form of revenue these days. It’d be rather awkward explaining why they enable these controls on the computer but they don’t allow them on iOS.

scarface74 8y ago
You mean like Apple not having a built in content blocking framework for Safari? https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/ContentBlocker.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...
- drb91 8y ago
  It doesn't apply to native apps.... IIRC they've even removed ad-blocking vpn software recently: https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/200903/apple-no-longer-accepting-vpn-based-ad-blockers-to-app-store-report-says https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/200903/apple-no-l...
  - scarface74 8y ago
    There are so many bad actors when it comes to VPN software ad blockers it wasn’t worth the risk. VPNs are allowed and are natively supported, but I wouldn’t trust a random third party VPN. If it were that important to me on iOS, I would host my own VPN server and just use the native support. https://www.imore.com/how-configure-vpn-access-your-iphone-or-ipad https://www.imore.com/how-configure-vpn-access-your-iphone-o... But honestly, I hate ad supported software. Either give me away to remove ads via an in app purchase or I’ll just delete the app. I bought an iOS device partially because I prefer the simple transaction model of giving Apple money and they give me stuff without subsidizing the purchase price with ads and invasive tracking.
  - scarface74 8y ago
    I forgot to mention. Many “VPN apps” for iOS don’t do anything special except for automatically configuring VPN settings. As the article above stated, you can do the same thing manually by going to settings. The VPN providers can sell services off the App Store and document the manual setup process.

saagarjha 8y ago

> I look forward to a day when network access becomes a permission a sandbox app asks for. This is something that the sandbox model already supports, but is granted by default to apps under the default profile for App Store apps.