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Been looking for something like this for my windows computer. Little Snitch has been invaluable over the years but never found anything that covers it’s features for windows

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If you are looking for a simple and light firewall (but still better than Windows Firewall), I recommend using Simplewall. It does not require a kernel extension and works with the API provided by Windows to do network filtering.

https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

We have a blog post about this, if anyone is curious: https://safing.io/blog/2022/04/11/portmaster-vs-simplewall/

Thanks this is great, it would be nice to have one to compare with LS just for the sake of features similiar too.

Simplewall is amazing- and is impressive in how it's able to stop a lot of Microsoft's attempts to get Telemetry out.

I've been looking at Portmaster for a while- it seems to be a valid option for those of us who dabble with the idea of totally halting the telemetry despite it being designed to be hard to stop

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