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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by krono on Monday November 15, 2021 @02:02PM (#29231195)
The OS firewall can only block incoming traffic (but not Apple's I believe) and has almost no configuration options.

Some popular third party solutions that are actually useful are Little Snitch [0], LuLu [1], and AdGuard [2].

[0] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

[1] https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html

[2] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-mac/overview.html

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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by sbuk on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:31PM (#29233762)
Mac OS comes with pf installed. This can block inbound and outbound traffic. There is a utility called Murus that manages this with a GUI, https://www.murusfirewall.com
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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by krono on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @06:22PM (#29260187)
Thanks, forgot about pf! Murus seems the perfect middle-ground for when day-to-day management through commandline tools is too much (I lasted for about a week!), but GUI tools sometimes too restrictive.
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