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There is some phoning home from applications, though. On top of the occasional Gatekeeper SNAFU. I like to rely on Little Snitch, and feel nervous when using a computer without it.

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I'm curious -- do you find a lot of unsavory activity using "Little Snitch", or is it almost all fair-and-square?

I ask out of honest curiosity. I tinkered with LS a year ago or so, but it made me wonder just how many bad-actors are really out there.

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A lot of applications, perhaps a majority, use analytics and send data data to eg Google or Microsoft whenever you run them.

Google, Adobe, and Microsoft tend to be quite bad. The other ones tend to be reasonable and just check for updates every now and then. It has flagged a couple of daemons, mostly related to iCloud, but nothing very suspicious after a quick investigation.

So no, nothing too worrisome.

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