Genuinely curious: how/why does that seem too often? I truly don’t understand. Have you seen the user experience and what’s involved?

How do you feel about other common permission prompts, e.g. location, microphone, camera, share your screen, run as privileged user, etc? I appreciate being asked about those things and I put this in a similar category.

  > Genuinely curious: how/why does that seem too often?

I want to work, not manage my work station.

I don't mind configuring things, my dotfiles are the product of 25 years of tweaking. But having to tweak anything multiple times per day is not going to help me work, it is going to hinder my work.

I highly recommend you look at the UX before drawing any conclusions in that case, because what you’re describing does not resemble the OpenSnitch UX.

The experience is much closer to the other common permission prompts I mentioned which is why I asked how you feel about them.

As a fellow multi-decade dotfile tweaker, that experience isn’t comparable and is not a good model for judging this tool.

OK, thanks, I'll give it a shot then. Thank you for insisting ))

Worth a shot! The first few days are by far the worst while all of the existing connections are accounted for, but things calm down quickly.

One thing I wished I knew sooner was that the square [+] button on the rule dialog opens more fields on the form for editing.

This makes it super easy to create a single wildcard rule e.g. when timesyncd tries to hit an ntp server for the first time, I expand the autogenerated rule that pops up to include all subdomains like *.ntp.domain.tld so I don’t have to keep creating rules for the other ntp servers. I’ve gotten more efficient over time this way.

Great, thanks, noted.