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OpenSnitch is a nice for the desktop environment, deny by default and prompts the user when an application requests a open port, at first the prompts can get a little overwhelming given how many things want to connect to xyz server but eventually lightens up.
Simplewall works great, it’s open source.
And yes, there are a couple of million requests made by windows apps alone, which are completely fine to block.
Simplewall also blocks windows telemetry.
I have to use win11 at work and it’s an absolute ahitstorm of network requests that you don’t get to see when using windows firewall.
Glaswire looks beautiful and functions well, but you will hit the paywall after a couple of weeks (I used this on the around 2010 I think)
The firewall is annoying? I would argue and say the firewall is protecting your computer from connecting to a rouge server, annoying or not it’s better than some douche abusing an exploit in your system.
OpenSnitch is a nice for the desktop environment, deny by default and prompts the user when an application requests a open port, at first the prompts can get a little overwhelming given how many things want to connect to xyz server but eventually lightens up.
Its a little annoying on Linux but I wonder what it would be like on Windows.
Windows firewall already does prompt like this
Glasswire and Tinywall(?) are like this.
Simplewall works great, it’s open source. And yes, there are a couple of million requests made by windows apps alone, which are completely fine to block. Simplewall also blocks windows telemetry. I have to use win11 at work and it’s an absolute ahitstorm of network requests that you don’t get to see when using windows firewall.
Glaswire looks beautiful and functions well, but you will hit the paywall after a couple of weeks (I used this on the around 2010 I think)
Trivial. It pops up, you click.
The firewall is annoying? I would argue and say the firewall is protecting your computer from connecting to a rouge server, annoying or not it’s better than some douche abusing an exploit in your system.