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Something almost no firewalls get right is pausing connections (NOT rejecting them) until I've decided whether to allow or not. The only firewalls I've seen do
by LoganDark 7mo ago
Something almost no firewalls get right is pausing connections (NOT rejecting them) until I've decided whether to allow or not. The only firewalls I've seen do this are Little Snitch for Mac, and Portmaster for Windows (before they made it adware / started locking existing local features behind the subscription).
- Avicebron 7mo agoFirewalls don't do this because they are built at the wrong layer to do proper pending calls. It's too narrow of a design space for most firewalls to care.
- LoganDark 7mo agoTrue, most firewalls aren't built to pause for user input. But then again, that's why almost no firewall software is suitable for this user experience.
- tankenmate 7mo agoI use Portmaster (on Linux) and I have never seen ads (either in the app or apps that get their DNS from Portmaster) on it. About the only thing I saw different between the free version and the base level paid for version was traffic history and weekly reports (and badges on Discord if that's your kind of thing).
- LoganDark 7mo agoBoth used to be free. And you may not consider it advertising when unavailable features exist in the free UI just to tell you they're paid, but I do. Especially when they used to be free.
- jcgl 7mo agoOpenSnitch seems to do this just fine? Unless I’m misunderstanding your point. Connections seem to just block until I take an action on the dialog. Now, if an application itself has specified a short timeout (looking at you, NodeJS-based stuff), that obviously doesn’t help. But for most software it works great.