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I think it's "access your data" permissions that are the ones to be wary of, due to the explanation here. Defending against this, I'm not really sure. Someone who knows more should chime in, but maybe a software firewall like Little Snitch/OpenSnitch that will let you approve/deny every connection. (This will probably get fatiguing fast.)
As a longtime Little Snitch user, it's freakin exhausting.
I thought little snitch worked per app and not for each connection one app makes
You can make rules network-wide, per-app, or per-incident. The latter is useful for getting a handle on app behavior. Like if you see it contacting 'updates.somedev.com' weekly, you can choose to allow or disallow permanently based on how benign you think the app is. But more likely, anything trying to phone home has a dozen CDNs it's trying to hit rather than an easily identifiable URL. Block one, it tries to hit the other. Maybe today, maybe next week. It gets overwhelming (which IMO is a feature for the dev, not a bug).
Thats cool