Why is the app trying to access Google and facebook domains?
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By eVolut
I have Little Snitch installed and monitoring calls that processes make to the Internet.
It turns out this app is making several calls, as far as I could see within the first 5 minutes of using the app, to various google.com adresses and one to facebook.
I am trying hard to live without google and, most of all, facebook !
Is it too much to ask to be forthcoming and disclose upfront what the app will attempt to do behind in our backs, and why ? I mean… especially when the app wants access to our home folder where our private data resides?
Is it too much to ask to have a Preference setting to explicitly disable those unwanted calls ?
I know what's being done here is common but no excuse, and my low rating reflects that !
Another small detail… (sorry, it may look like a rant): For the sake of user-friendliness, please review the text of the app dialogs, and call a Folder a Folder, and not a Directory. I know this is the terminology that Unix uses, the user interface should use Mac standard and user-friendly terminology, and Folder it is!
Even though I perfectly know what the term “directory” refers to, I find it irritating when developers don’t look outside of their world and take the end-user perspective. Some people may say this app is intended for technically savvy people, but nevertheless…