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Re:OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch appli... by korethr on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:29PM (#22206586)
I will be curious what kinds of bugs blocking said requests flushes out of various applications. I expect some applications will be built robustly and gracefully accept that adserver.trackallusers.com has suddenly ceased to exist forever, and continue to do what the user expects them to do. But, I will not be surprised if other applications turn out to crash, turn into security vulnerabilities, or throw up annoying popups that say something like, "We use advertisements to pay for this awesome free service we give you. :( Please unblock evil-cabal.org. An assassin has been dispatched to ensure your compliance." Okay, maybe I'm not expecting that last one quite so much, but crashes and breakages are totally plausible, IMO.
Re:OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch appli... by LinuxBender on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:40PM (#22206668)
There are numerous Mac, Windows and Linux apps that do not behave well when they detect the network is up, but they can not reach a resource. Most of the time I run into these on Windows. Some apps can lock up the desktop until the flow is permitted, but permitting the flow requires the desktop.
Re:OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch appli... by rraghur on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:49PM (#22207966)
I've had back payment pages fail because of ad blocking with pi hole!

Something from dev.visualweboptimizer.com! Had to make an exception