Connection History

The history window used to be a fixed 90 days. That is enough to compare this month with last month, and not enough for anything seasonal: a trip, a project, the month you installed the app you are now suspicious of.

The window is now yours to set: 3 months, 6 months, 1 year or 2 years. The default moved to one year.

NetMute keeps daily totals for the whole window: per day, per app, how much went where. That is what makes a year affordable to store on a laptop and what the monthly and yearly views are built from.

It is worth being exact about what that is not. It is not a full packet log, and it is not an interactive timeline you can scrub across twelve months connection by connection. A year of daily totals answers “how much, which app, which direction, when”, not “which individual connection at 14:32 on a Tuesday in January”.

One more detail worth stating: the domain list itself is tidied after half a year without contact. The daily totals keep the full window; a domain nothing has talked to since spring does not stay in the list forever.

All of it stays on your Mac.

A yearly comparison after a trip, when the data question is really a roaming-bill question.

An app whose behaviour changed: with a year of daily totals, the month it changed is visible, and that usually identifies the update responsible.

Seasonal work, where the honest comparison is with the same period last year rather than with last month.

Longer history means more insight and more data about you sitting on your disk. That is a real trade-off, so it is a setting rather than a decision made for you, and 2 years is available for people who want it, not the default.

Shortening the window asks first, in plain words, because it deletes irreversibly: picking 3 months after a year of use throws away nine months that cannot be recovered. It is your data and your call, and NetMute makes sure it is a call you actually made.