How to prevent my applications to "call home"

I realised it slows down the applications to open -
beside I don't want to send information -
it usually happens with microsoft products / words, excel.
I s there a program that notifie me when an application tried to do it?
I tried snitch but it alerts me every 10 seconds making it hard to work with.
any idea

Little Snitch should do it, isn't there a setting to ask each time, or never allow?
PS. I've seen many MB mysteriously being sent to a hidden MS IP before.

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