The first time I installed and ran Little Snitch, I was pretty much flabergassted at how chatty my system was. Just constantly being presented with requests to the point that made it impossible to work. I loved learning how prevelant E.T. phoned home.
But then as I was just constantly inundated with those requests, I hated having to constantly deal with it. Now it's time to whitelist/authorize/etc. But do I really want to blanket OK something just because I'm annoyed? What does one do to stay sane and safe?
<disables Little Snitch> securely places head back in sand
Little Snitch is the single program to illustrate all of the scary websites/blogs/etc of how shitty companies are about their "free" software and other shenanigans that devs play and from some "legit" companies.
I love Little Snitch and I hate Little Snitch, and it's not their fault.