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Glasswire worth it?

Andreas Lilja
By Andreas Lilja
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Saw the LTT discount.

 

Or it's a just a gimmick?

 

 

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I'm using it to block a couple of apps, pretty minor use... what I find most useful is it will show me when apps updated in the background.

In the few cases where I'm on a metered connection it'll show me if something's using bandwidth I wasn't expecting.

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