Correction: Little Snitch was first released in 2003. The domain gstatic.com has been in use since at least 2008. It appears that Little Snitch was first men

Correction: Little Snitch was first released in 2003. The domain gstatic.com has been in use since at least 2008. It appears that Little Snitch was first mentioned on HN somewhere around 2013. This blog appeared somewhere around 2007 the same year than HN launched. To be sure, no one was blocking ssl.gstatic.com before Little Snitch existed, i.e., pre-2003, because the use of the subdomain began about 5 years after the software was released. Apologies for the error and thank you for the correction. Little Snitch has remained closed source for over 23 years. As such, there will always be things about it that its authors know that "no one else knows", unless they choose to share. Why this non-transparency might matter to some computer users is a question left for the reader.