OpenSnitch

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with OpenSnitch, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

The user finds OpenSnitch's interface lacking and wants a better UI2026-04-09
Expired temporary rules are not removed or marked, so the GUI must be restarted to clear them2024-08-10
Creating robust rules for Python, Java, Node and similar apps takes trial and error2023-05-14
Connection alerts only appear in one of several concurrent X sessions, so other users miss them2022-06-26
Hard to configure correctly2022-02-06
High CPU usage when a lot of traffic passes through it2020-02-02
Apps repeatedly ask for permission, flooding users with popups until they disable the firewall2020-02-01
Countdown auto-approves unknown connections even while the user is focused on the prompt2020-02-01
Constant alert boxes become annoying and distracting, eventually ruining OS usability2020-02-01