impostor vs simplewall

impostor

spoof OS detection by messing with the tcp stack (by superswan)

simplewall

Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer. (by henrypp)

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impostor		simplewall
	Project
1	Mentions	166
8	Stars	2,120
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	9.3
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
C	Language	C
The Unlicense	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

impostor

Posts with mentions or reviews of impostor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

simplewall

Posts with mentions or reviews of simplewall. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

PECKER BURST - PING - SERVER issues fix!
2 projects | /r/ModernWarfareIII | 9 Dec 2023

EU server list: https://pastebin.com/raw/Sh1VXdTZ - compatibile with simplewall - just update game install path for records (find & replace all)
Windows users report appearance of unwanted HP app
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023

You could install WPD (https://wpd.app/), use Simplewall (https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall) and a pihole on the network to block a lot, but it's still sad that we need to do this.
Apple alternatives include LuLu (https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu)
Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jul 2023
OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 May 2023

I use OpenSnitch on Linux which is great, and if you are looking for a similar software for Windows I can recommend simplewall.
https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
Any free alternatives to Glasswire? (personal firewall with per-app blocking and bandwidth monitor). •
2 projects | /r/software | 21 Apr 2023

I'm currently using https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
A few less Googleable questions about local LLMs
4 projects | /r/LocalLLaMA | 19 Apr 2023

I'm glad you liked it. I allow internet access in Sandboxie and then outside the sandbox I use a firewall (Simplewall) which prompts me on what to do whenever an app wants to access the internet.
is there a program to clean up windows 10 and remove bloat?
5 projects | /r/software | 5 Apr 2023
The Mullvad Browser
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2023
Little Snitch Mini
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2023
What is the most painfree way to scan a pc for viruses?
2 projects | /r/Piracy | 23 Feb 2023

then simplewall https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

What are some alternatives?

When comparing impostor and simplewall you can also consider the following projects:

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privacy.sexy - Open-source tool to enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows, macOS and Linux, because privacy is sexy

AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses

Open-Shell-Menu - Classic Shell Reborn.

streamdeck-tools - The Stream Deck Tools library wraps all the communication with the Stream Deck app, allowing you to focus on actually writing the Plugin's logic

Pi-Hole-for-WSL1 - Ad-blocking DNS server for Windows • Unbound pre-configured • Deployment ready in minutes • Does not require hypervisor/docker

tron - Tron