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A comment on Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k in the last 4 months. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by rpgbr on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @05:47PM (#39996055)
Block this domain with a firewall or DNS filter like NextDNS?
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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by latexr on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @06:02PM (#39996174)
That’s at best a weak band-aid. Who knows if blocking that one domain stops everything? We shouldn’t have to resort to firewalls or DNS filters to stop local apps from collecting our information.
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