Technically, unless you allow the connection, Little Snitch does indeed prevent HTTP data from getting sent. When you look at the implementation of Little Snitch, the interpretation of the word 'data' becomes crucial. Your decision will be remembered and applied automatically in the future. No data is transmitted without your consent. Here's Objective Development's advertisement for the Alert Mode of Little Snitch: Whenever an app attempts to connect to a server on the Internet, Little Snitch shows a connection alert, allowing you to decide whether to allow or deny the connection.

My hope is that highlighting this issue will prompt some improvements in Little Snitch to ameliorate it. However, this blog post raises a privacy issue with Little Snitch that bothers me, and I believe the public has the right to know about it. I've also done a lot to promote Little Snitch on my blog and even in the news media. I purchased Little Snitch years ago, continue to use it, and will continue to use it. Little Snitch is a macOS app and network filter extension made by Objective Development Software.

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