More than a decade back, I used to do this using firewall rules. Ot used to be a single-click firewall setting to disable all apps by default, have a pop-up show up when an app not already in the rule set would try to access the Internet, and thus keep building / refining the rules.
One workaround apps had was to open a browser window to send information over.
There's no reason I would want mouse / keyboard / pen-tablet / printer, etc. drivers to be accessing the Internet, not even for checking for updates. And there's no real reason for these drivers to be more than a kew KB in size, leave alone 100+ MBs like these have been since ages.
One workaround apps had was to open a browser window to send information over.
There's no reason I would want mouse / keyboard / pen-tablet / printer, etc. drivers to be accessing the Internet, not even for checking for updates. And there's no real reason for these drivers to be more than a kew KB in size, leave alone 100+ MBs like these have been since ages.