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Re:OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch appli... by m463 on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:34PM (#22207507)
You don't whitelist firefox. You whitelist firefox talking to www.foo.com port 80.
Re:OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch appli... by c0llision on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:37PM (#22207539)
You would need to do that for every domain firefox talks too, which will quickly get annoying, as stated in the original comment:

Safari and Chrome want to talk to all kinds of things on TCP/80 and 443, so you pretty quickly say they're allowed to make any 80 or 443 connection they want without further pestering you

Re:OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch appli... by m463 on Saturday February 01, 2020 @06:32PM (#22213995)
You can set it up to allow/block a site or domain forever.

For example, block graph.facebook.com forever.

You can also look in the little snitch network monitor and block sites after the fact for the future.

It's a lot less tedious if you know the keyboard commands:

alt-return denies the connection, and cmd-return allows it.

Re:OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch appli... by gruez on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:26PM (#22208162)
How are you going to handle CDNs? Are you going to whitelist all the [random letters].cloudfront.net? What about public websites? You can conceivably establish a communications channel over any popular social media site.
Re:OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch appli... by m463 on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:41PM (#22208241)
uMatrix helps with all of this to block domains by name in the browser.

I suspect Little Snitch has a sort of hole in it's design.

I think the DNS lookups go through before you get the allow/deny dialog box. So your browser might do a dns lookup for user-gruez-jan-2020-in-timbuktu.<random>.trackingjerks.net which would get around little snitch.