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There’s also the fantastic app BlockBlock to help with this. Notifies you of changes to those folders and allows you to accept/deny whatever an app is trying to change.

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Another option is Lingon X. It provides a GUI for launchd and includes a notification setting under Preferences > Notifications for items being added/removed.

https://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/

https://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/#preferencesnotificatio...

This is super useful. Thanks for sharing. I wish there was something out there where I could always see/check what folders are changed and what program is making external http calls to dodgy IPs. Then block the good jesus out of them.

The same devs also make LuLu, an application firewall similar to Little Snitch:

https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu

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