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Little Snitch vs trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper

A side-by-side look at Little Snitch and trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Little Snitch

Little Snitch

Security & Privacy

Little Snitch is a macOS firewall that monitors outgoing and incoming connections, alerting you to any unexpected activity. It lets you choose to allow or deny connections for improved security and privacy.

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trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper

trickle - Userland Bandwidth Shaper

Network & Admin

Trickle is a userspace bandwidth shaper for Linux. It allows limiting the bandwidth used by a process, group of processes, or network interface. It's useful for rate-limiting backups, downloads, etc to prevent using all available bandwidth.

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