This is a really well designed firewall for Windows. Too bad Macs don’t have a close equivalent (other than Little Snitch). They tried to develop for Macs but couldn’t: https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/install/status/mac

  • If you’re able, enable “Ignore System/Network Servers”.
  • Ditto with “Ignore Multicast DNS”.
  • If you use Firefox, you will need to disable Secure DNS. To do that, go to the Network setting and uncheck “Enable DNS over HTTPS”.
  • If you enable “Force Block P2P/Direct Connections”, some games may not work.