Little Snitch was first released in 2003. Unfortunately, your comment is a stereotypical example of the worst of Hacker News, both condescending and ignorant.
In any case, it's unclear exactly which version of Safari and/or macOS started the specific behavior noted in the blog post. Moreover, as the blog post also notes, it's problematic to deny ssl.gstatic.com across the board, because that causes website breakage.
> The author confesses he did not know about his web browser phoning home to ssl.gstatic.com but titles his blog post about Little Snitch with the phrase "that nobody knows about" insinuating that he now knows about something that others do not.
This is a gross mischaracterization of the blog post, the title of which literally starts with "Little Snitch feature". I'm certain that nobody knew about the feature (matching an associated process with "via"), because the Little Snitch developers themselves weren't aware of it until they reviewed the implementation.
Little Snitch was first released in 2003. Unfortunately, your comment is a stereotypical example of the worst of Hacker News, both condescending and ignorant.
In any case, it's unclear exactly which version of Safari and/or macOS started the specific behavior noted in the blog post. Moreover, as the blog post also notes, it's problematic to deny ssl.gstatic.com across the board, because that causes website breakage.
> The author confesses he did not know about his web browser phoning home to ssl.gstatic.com but titles his blog post about Little Snitch with the phrase "that nobody knows about" insinuating that he now knows about something that others do not.
This is a gross mischaracterization of the blog post, the title of which literally starts with "Little Snitch feature". I'm certain that nobody knew about the feature (matching an associated process with "via"), because the Little Snitch developers themselves weren't aware of it until they reviewed the implementation.