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Better yet, a tool like Little Snitch should be built into the OS. Give me a detailed log of every network requests, to which domains, with what data.
by gyomu 4mo ago
Better yet, a tool like Little Snitch should be built into the OS. Give me a detailed log of every network requests, to which domains, with what data.
- Cider9986 4mo agoThis isn't effective because Little Snitch only sees the domains so apps can just serve the trackers on the same domain as essential services making blocking impossible. The only way to prevent malicious apps from affecting your privacy is to not install them or not give them network access.
- gyomu 4mo agoI derive lots of value from Little Snitch on my Mac, so this approach is more effective than not having anything. And yes, having the ability to deny any app network access on iOS would be great.
- amelius 4mo agoYeah but it might be because you are part of a minority. Once/if this is built into the OS, the app builders will have a strong incentive to do things differently.
- inigyou 4mo agoCan, but they don't, because app developers are just as lazy and don't waste time to hide their trackers
- saagarjha 4mo agoYet.
- 360MustangScope 4mo agoThey don’t because there is no reason to currently. If this was added then they would have a reason to and do it. YouTube used to be separate domains for ads and then it got merged together so that you can’t block the ads network wide without blocking YouTube videos.
- inigyou 4mo agoThat's YouTube. One of the unlaziest dev teams. Spiderman Solitaire isn't going to bother.
- fizwidget 4mo agoIt’s not quite that detailed but iOS’s builtin “app privacy report” does give a fair amount of info, including a list of domains accessed.
- CTDOCodebases 4mo agoIf I remember correctly iPhone apps used to use the devices SSL certificates so you as a user could install your own and man-in-the-middle the traffic to see what was being sent. AFAIK now the apps use certificate pinning.
- prime17569 4mo agoThis exists already! You can see it by going to Settings > Privacy & Security and turning on the App Privacy Report at the bottom.
- jtmarl1n 4mo agoThanks, I did not know about this setting. Curious to see what will show up now that it’s on.
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- Barbing 4mo agoYes and it should work properly instead of making unwanted initial outbound connections (macOS firewalls are broken).
- physhster 4mo agoI use DNS-level blocking and audit, a bit like Pi-hole, but as a commercial service I can use anywhere. Definitely blocks a lot of trackers, but probably not all.