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On startup they send request to versions.withfig.com, tel.withfig.com, VS marketplace, Sentry, AWS Cognito and a couple more. My firewall blocked all of these and I couldn't use the app. It needs api.withfig.com, app.withfig.com and AWS Congnito to work. After signup I blocked all these and I saw they ping their servers every few seconds. Removing it permanently.

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Out of curiosity, which firewall do you use?

not OP: Little Snitch is my go to

Same, I also use LittleSnitch. Its amazing and totally worth the cost.

Do I understand correctly it all happened after you explicitly opted out of telemetry?

Telemetry (non-essential data collection) must be opt-in in my jurisdiction.

Yep

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