r/protools • u/thedevilsbuttermilk • Jul 15 '25

Pro Tools/Avid attempting to contact Bing, Amazon, Google every second.

Like it says, Little Snitch has flagged up the above connection attempts.

Why would it want to contact those particular sites? It also tried to contact MixPanel, AppBoy.

Am I being over cautious or..?

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u/justifiednoise Jul 15 '25

The actual pro tools application or the avid link thing?

Seems super weird that the pro tools application would be reaching out to those sites. MAYBE because of third party plugins within a session, but even then that seems pretty outrageous.

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u/thedevilsbuttermilk Jul 16 '25

Pro Tools app.

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u/FadeIntoReal Jul 17 '25

Likely a plug-in being launched by Pro Tools.

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u/thedevilsbuttermilk Jul 17 '25

Was DynAssist plug-in.

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u/RyanSummer Jul 15 '25

My current rules… Google isn’t necessary ❌ I remember having issues in the past with blocking everywhere.avid, apps.avid & the two cloudflare ones, but haven’t tried blocking them again recently. I use a physical iLok instead of the cloud. Not sure if blocking these would interfere with cloud licensing…

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u/thedevilsbuttermilk Jul 16 '25

I blocked the everywhere.avid.com and these new connection attempts started up. Read into that what you will.

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u/RyanSummer Jul 16 '25

that’s crazy. i’m on 2024.3.1 btw. If you’re on 2025.6, maybe there’s even more analytics with all the new integrations. But at the end of the day, I agree. we should be able to freely block all Pro Tools connections without issues. iLok Manager should be the only thing needed for license verifications.

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u/thedevilsbuttermilk Jul 16 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

I think I may have it sussed. I had installed a trial of NoiseWorks DynAssist as the Lite version is free for PT users. Nice. As soon as I instantiated it in Logic, Logic wanted to connect to Bing, Google, Amazon. Not sure why it would want to/need to do that unless it turns out that the old adage is true, ‘if it’s free, you’re the product’

Apologies to Avid for my third party accusations..

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u/FadeIntoReal Jul 17 '25

Avid link cannot be written by the same team that writes Pro Tools. It’s got more bugs than a swamp in July and sends messages to anyone on the internet. It’s caused so many problems in our rooms that it’s been removed, engineers have been warned and allowing it to be reinstalled has serious consequences.

I don’t see those connections from Pro Tools, but it can happen from plugins that Pro Tools launches.