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acomjean · 2024-12-30T03:42:02 1735530122

My understanding is that there were some issues with Apple often not allowing its own traffic to be filtered via firewalls on its systems.

See discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25109724

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500237

If you want to monitor your own network I’ve heard good things about the pi-hole project

https://pi-hole.net/blog/2017/02/22/what-really-happens-on-y...

sneak · 2024-12-30T05:48:14 1735537694

That’s long outdated information.

LS can easily block all Apple phone-home. (Some must be unblocked, specifically gs.apple.com, for UpdateBrainService, for OS updates to work.)

I have a few macs that don’t communicate with Apple at all except during system updates.

m463 · 2024-12-30T12:10:37 1735560637

If little snitch worked on ios...

I'm pretty sure the only reason it works on macos at all was that it got in early. I believe Apple periodically tries to hobble it but there is pushback.