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		strgcmc on Nov 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application You should know that Windows includes a similar feature (to call home and report file hashes and the user's IP for example) called SmartScreen, and with default settings it also triggers on every single application launch in the OS. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SmartScreen#Windows (also I should know, I worked on a tiny part of this feature in IE9 and Windows 8)

peternicky on Nov 13, 2020 [–]

Thanks for the reminder. I prefer that I can disable SmartScreen easily instead of making little snitch rules on macos.

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