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Why LittleSnitch and Lulu are not mentionned (as far as I know) on the MacOS page ?

As with the other OS-centered articles in the Knowledge Base, the macOS Overview is a page which highlights the first-party tools to enable, disable, and use on macOS.

Since Little Snitch and LuLu are third-party tools, they would be housed in the Recommendations part of the website IF approved in the following discussions:

Little Snitch (Software Firewall for macOS)

Realized it was not mentioned yet here. They just launched a new version This is really a no brainer when it comes to privacy and security on macos. It features blocklist feature and secure dns as well as easy monitoring what the apps on your device want and have connected to.

LuLu (Firewall for macOS)

If you don’t like to pay (shame on you), there is a LuLu

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Outbound Firewall Applications / Network Monitoring Tools

Outbound firewall applications come up many times in discussions about privacy as this is one way to monitor and prevent the apps you use from phoning home. Privacy Guides does not have any recommendation regarding outbound firewalls. I’d like to know your/everyone’s opinion about these kind of firewall apps. Do you find them useful? Do they deserve a section/mention on PG’s recommendations? Do you use something else to achieve similar effect, like DNS filtering? Maybe you use both? The sectio…