It really would not be hard to offer sensible default presets per application. > your decisions about what to block and when, are different from my decisions about what to block and when A ridiculous amount of time is spent changing an initial deny to an accept. There is simply too much trial and error caused by initially denying a connection, only to discover that it's a mandatory connection to allow the app to function properly.

As it stands, I uninstalled out of frustration after using the demo for 6 hours. If they needed to up the price to make such a strategy viable, so be it. Yes, it would require constant maintenance on their part. The same should be true for this kind of software. No anti-virus out there alerts a user to every filesystem read and write - they maintain databases of known threats. One person on their end spends a day or two figuring it out for an app, and saves tens of thousands of user hours having to individually perform that task. Little Snitch should be doing that work up front for its users. I bet that nearly every user simply gives up and whitelists the entire application, which defeats the purpose of paying for and installing an app like Little Snitch in the first place. Perfect example: Spotify is impossible to manually whitelist without spending well over an hour accepting or denying each of the exhaustingly large number of domains it touches. For a paid program, I would expect them to maintain a list of the 'required/acceptable' connections and 'unnecessary' connections for popular programs, and automate the process of approval for each app. And no, a lookup tool is not good enough. Frankly, I don't think Little Snitch is usable because of this.

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