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Fun fact: i just found out that in Little Snitch, blocking a 'hostname' or 'domain', does NOT block the IP address this resolves to. Very weird. This is done, a
by DavideNL 7y ago
Fun fact: i just found out that in Little Snitch, blocking a 'hostname' or 'domain', does NOT block the IP address this resolves to.
Very weird. This is done, apparently, because sometimes multiple domains are hosted on the same server/ip. This way you can block only 1 of those domains and not the entire server.
So, a good way for apps to circumvent common blocklists for trackers/ads, is to fall back/connect to a hard coded IP address if connecting to the domain doesn't work...
It would be good if Little Snitch would have an option to disable this behaviour for specific blocklists.