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Why I’m skipping the proprietary "Little Snitch" for Linux (the.unknown-universe.co.uk)

submitted 4 days ago by TheIPW@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I saw the news about Little Snitch coming to Linux via eBPF and Rust. On paper, it looks fancy. In reality, the backend is closed source.

Personally, I don’t see the point in installing a proprietary black box to monitor other black boxes. I’m sticking with my AdGuard Home setup and OpenSnitch for when I actually need to trace a binary.

I wrote up my thoughts on why I think this is a solved problem for most FOSS-first home labs.

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[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Careful. Almost every Firefox based browser still pings out to various google domains and sends out other telemetry.

Librewolf is fine though.

[–] Obin@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Librewolf (with some overrides and a source patch) on the desktop and Fennec on Android. Before Librewolf I used upstream Firefox with the Arkenfox user.js, but Librewolf made that obsolete.

I haven't looked into Fennec's current version in detail, mostly because I use the browser so rarely on my phone and my main consideration is not getting ads when I do, but they might still use SafeSearch and stuff like that, so if you're aware of any better alternatives that are in F-Droid please tell me.

[–] danglybits27@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

IronFox. You might have to manually add the repo if not using another F-Droid client like Droid-ify: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/fdroid

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

Or Obtainium.