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Aside from the link below; there's a fantastic (paid) firewall software called littlesnitch.
You can use it to watch every process send network traffic, you can even collect samples of the traffic and plot it on a map: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
(not affiliated, just a happy customer; it's one of the few things I like the mac ecosystem for.. there's attempts to port it to linux with https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch; but it's not as polished of course)
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privaxy
Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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These list contain most MS spyware domains, I think: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d...
Be careful, though, it's easy to accidentally break Windows Update.
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Wine solves a lot of this (but not all) for Windows programs, the macOS equivalent Darling[0] seems to still has some way to go until GUI programs are reliably supported.
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Linux has lsof that can show connexions. Here's a config generator for conky that demonstrates the usage:
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