Looks promising. I used to use Little Snitch, but last year they decided to charge for the new version, and I uninstalled it.
Little Snitch was effective, but overly complex for the average user. I'm sure it's great for someone who configures networks on a regular basis, but as a Mac user, I just want to use my Mac. If I wanted to twiddle with security settings all day long, I'd still be on Windows.
This looks like it might be a good, simple, replacement. Hopefully as it evolves it doesn't get swamped by feature bloat.
That comment makes me chuckle. These days, I have close to zero faith in commercial software that is "free", assuming that the business model is selling my data.
I happily paid for Little Snitch and was comforted by the fact that I was the customer.
True. But in practice, a software company that's making money from users has a lot of incentive not to harm their brand, or open themselves up to competition, by being shady.
It does happen but users are waking up to the problem and companies are learning.
Outcomes from such clauses also hinge on whether metadata describing the operation of their system - such as logs showing who communicated with who - is your data, or their data.
Following recent changes to law here in Australia, for example, metadata is essentially the property of the state.
The new major version offers a lot more functionality. I looked into it and decided I wanted it, so I upgraded. I assume that I could have stayed with the old major version but I'm not sure.
Indeed. I'm especially suspicious of "security" software. Releasing free high quality security seems to be a popular attack vector for advertisers, spammers, hackers, and nation states.
Now we just need to figure out who pays for those upgrades. I think we could try a scheme where we keep growing the user base so more recent customers pay for the prior customers' upgrades.
Considering Apple's constant shifting of goalposts with macOS, what counts as "significant" in your book, even disregarding user-facing features? And how significant is the ~$50 they want for it?
I have to roll my eyes at someone who scoffs at a $25 upgrade every few years.
If they're not cool with funding any future development on the product, then they must be cool with not upgrading. But of course they instead entitle themselves to all of your future labor because they once threw some shekels your way.
you only need to pay every 3-5 years aaaaand only if you want to upgrade, aaaaaaand you can keep using your last updated version, aaaand only 50% of the full price
Little Snitch was effective, but overly complex for the average user. I'm sure it's great for someone who configures networks on a regular basis, but as a Mac user, I just want to use my Mac. If I wanted to twiddle with security settings all day long, I'd still be on Windows.
This looks like it might be a good, simple, replacement. Hopefully as it evolves it doesn't get swamped by feature bloat.