The same should be true for this kind of software. No anti-virus out there alerts a user to every filesystem read and write - they maintain databases of known threats. One person on their end spends a day or two figuring it out for an app, and saves tens of thousands of user hours having to individually perform that task. Little Snitch should be doing that work up front for its users. I bet that nearly every user simply gives up and whitelists the entire application, which defeats the purpose of paying for and installing an app like Little Snitch in the first place. Perfect example: Spotify is impossible to manually whitelist without spending well over an hour accepting or denying each of the exhaustingly large number of domains it touches. For a paid program, I would expect them to maintain a list of the "required/acceptable" connections and "unnecessary" connections for popular programs, and automate the process of approval for each app. And no, a lookup tool is not good enough. Frankly, I don't think Little Snitch is usable because of this.
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