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I was also annoyed to tears by it. That's why I built an alternative called Radio Silence (https://radiosilenceapp.com).

Radio Silence doesn't use popups or alerts. It's completely passive and invisible when you don't have the app's UI open. If you want to monitor connections, you can open the app and take a look at the monitor tab.

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Good opportunity to market you app you got there, hehe. Anyway, I thought the thing about little snitch was that even before the connection was made for the first time you were able to cancel it, you would miss out on that with your app.

Can you also disallow certain requests with your app? It seems to be app-wide only, but if I wanted to block e.g. chrome (or, all app) from specifically connecting to "adWare.com", would that be possible?

Nope, Radio Silence only blocks whole apps/processes. Little Snitch is probably still the best choice for fine-tuning and reactive blocking.

Apropos of anything else, I definitely appreciate your ability to acknowledge and recognize a competing/separate product as better suited than your own for certain things.

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