Do you know Little Snitch ? Of course you know Little Snitch. This macOS app doescome upprettyoften. It took me a few years between first hearing about it and finally trying it out, but here I am. And it's awesome. Basically, Little Snitch is a system-wide app-level firewall, letting you decide which domain each and every app on your Mac should and shouldn't connect to.
If you're even a little privacy conscious, or annoyed by all these ads popping everywhere, you probably use one of the many ad-blocking browser extensions out there. I lost track of which one actually works a while ago. Maybe you also use something like Ghostery to block tracking. I st
But do you really know what rules they apply? Did they decide to allow acceptable ads without asking you? Are they reselling your anonymized and repackaged data? Is it even a legitimate ad-blocking extension? And good luck installing an ad-blocker on that email client to block those pesky e-mail tracking pixels.
Now, you could edit your hosts file to block pretty much anything. I find that cumbersome and annoying. Plus, there's no monitoring to add your own personal favorites. That's where Little Snitch comes in!
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One of their latest features? Auto-updated rule groups subscriptions!
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So, I installed it, and quickly went on setting it up. Then I started looking for some rule groups to subscribe to. And there weren't many lying around.
Okay, I found the problem. I checked Little Snitch and noticed a new rule which was denying the TCP connections via WebProcess to port 80 (http). I don't remember making that rule but there it was. Unchecking the rule fixed the problem. It's working fine now.
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- Using Little Snitch's rules you can allow or disallow connections as you need them. And having a little control over that process is a good thing. People - just disallow a connection you don't understand 'until quit' and then do a search on it. (duckduckgo is a good search engine that by all accounts doesn't track your searches.).
- Choose Little Snitch File Restore from Backup and select a previously created backup file or /Library/Application Support/Objective Development/Little Snitch/configuration4.xpl to import rules and settings from Little Snitch 4. This also works with configurations and backups from Little Snitch 3. Export of rules and settings in JSON format.
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Two did stand out. Peter Lowe's adservers list (https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/) and Steven Black's host files. They contain lots of rules and domains, blocking both ads and trackers, including social ones. Exactly what I was looking for.
So, without any further ado, here are a few rule groups subscription you can add to Little Snitch to get started!
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For the second one, you'll need to pick the .lsrules files you're interested in, access the raw files (should look like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/naveednajam/Little-Snitch---Rule-Groups/master/unified_hosts_base/stevenblack0.lsrules), and paste the urls into Little Snitch's 'New Rule Group Subscription' wizard, one at a time. There are approximately 10k rules per file, so your computer might choke on it for an instant, but it'll be fine.
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If you're even a little privacy conscious, or annoyed by all these ads popping everywhere, you probably use one of the many ad-blocking browser extensions out there. I lost track of which one actually works a while ago. Maybe you also use something like Ghostery to block tracking. I st
But do you really know what rules they apply? Did they decide to allow acceptable ads without asking you? Are they reselling your anonymized and repackaged data? Is it even a legitimate ad-blocking extension? And good luck installing an ad-blocker on that email client to block those pesky e-mail tracking pixels.
Now, you could edit your hosts file to block pretty much anything. I find that cumbersome and annoying. Plus, there's no monitoring to add your own personal favorites. That's where Little Snitch comes in!
Reset Little Snitch Rules
One of their latest features? Auto-updated rule groups subscriptions!
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So, I installed it, and quickly went on setting it up. Then I started looking for some rule groups to subscribe to. And there weren't many lying around.
Okay, I found the problem. I checked Little Snitch and noticed a new rule which was denying the TCP connections via WebProcess to port 80 (http). I don't remember making that rule but there it was. Unchecking the rule fixed the problem. It's working fine now.
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- Using Little Snitch's rules you can allow or disallow connections as you need them. And having a little control over that process is a good thing. People - just disallow a connection you don't understand 'until quit' and then do a search on it. (duckduckgo is a good search engine that by all accounts doesn't track your searches.).
- Choose Little Snitch File Restore from Backup and select a previously created backup file or /Library/Application Support/Objective Development/Little Snitch/configuration4.xpl to import rules and settings from Little Snitch 4. This also works with configurations and backups from Little Snitch 3. Export of rules and settings in JSON format.
Reset Little Snitch Rules Roblox
Two did stand out. Peter Lowe's adservers list (https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/) and Steven Black's host files. They contain lots of rules and domains, blocking both ads and trackers, including social ones. Exactly what I was looking for.
So, without any further ado, here are a few rule groups subscription you can add to Little Snitch to get started!
Reset Little Snitch Rules Game
For the second one, you'll need to pick the .lsrules files you're interested in, access the raw files (should look like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/naveednajam/Little-Snitch---Rule-Groups/master/unified_hosts_base/stevenblack0.lsrules), and paste the urls into Little Snitch's 'New Rule Group Subscription' wizard, one at a time. There are approximately 10k rules per file, so your computer might choke on it for an instant, but it'll be fine.
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Oh, and as an added bonus: you can also use it to block all these annoying consent pop-ups that started appearing a year ago.
Hope this helps, and a great day to all of you!
