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How is LuLu compared to littlesnitch? And is it even useful anymore with macOS being increasingly locked down (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816
by robinhoodexe 4y ago
How is LuLu compared to littlesnitch? And is it even useful anymore with macOS being increasingly locked down (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816).
- sheerun 4y agoLuLu you can build yourself. Both protect you from 3rd party apps, not Apple, as Apple can do whathever the ** it wants to your computer through updates.
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- simonh 4y agoYou can't disable automatic updates?
- personalidea 4y agoYou can.
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- sneak 4y agoFalse. Little Snitch can block connections from all processes in the OS, including the Apple factory ones.
- least 4y agoThis was fixed almost immediately after this came about.
- 8fingerlouie 4y ago> How is LuLu compared to littlesnitch? Last i tried LuLu it worked similar to Littlesnitch, though nowhere near as "polished". The basic functionality is more or less the same though, with Littlesnitch offering to automatically unblock known "trusted" services like Apples own services. > And is it even useful anymore with macOS being increasingly locked down It's an application firewall, so even if MacOS is locked down, any app can still roam freely (within it's jail). Suppose some app has access to your contacts, that means it can still upload every contact to a server, and an application firewall can help you detect/block that.
- sneak 4y agoBlocking the Apple services that every mac incessantly phones home to (with unique identifiers tied to hardware) is the main use case of Little Snitch for me personally. Even if you don't use iCloud, the App Store, iMessage, FaceTime, or any of it - macs still send tons of realtime usage data to Apple even if you don't want them to.