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HSO on Aug 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use

I use adblock, ghostery, several JS blacklists etc., uninstalled all Flash from all computers years ago, and still I regularly catch "funny calls" to strange IPs I don't even visit in Little Snitch.

Highly recommend this little utility. The logs make for unexpectedly interesting reading.

dhimes on Aug 10, 2015 [–]

Looks like it's Apple only?

jessfyi on Aug 10, 2015 | [–]

Glasswire, https://www.glasswire.com/ is a solid Windows alternative.

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