[Tinos]

Hey! Appreciate the concern w/ web requests. If you look closely at the URL you'll notice that all the requests are to *.localhost addresses. This is just how Tauri's asset handling & IPC systems work - nothing to worry about :)

I've gone ahead and create a GitHub Issue about setting up a checkbox with the installer such that it doesn't force Electro as the default app. It's something I wanted to add pre-announcement but figured it wouldn't be as much of a requested feature as it clearly is, my bad.

Thanks for the feedback!

[haddonist]

Nope. Very first request it makes:

From: Microsoft Edge WebView2 To: 13.107.42.16:443 - Redmond, United States of America

(very handy tools, per-application firewalls..)

[Tinos]

Oh bloody hell of course Microsoft is pulling off stunts like this. Thanks for raising this, I'll have a look at what my options are to turn this off.

Tauri 2.0 was initially chosen because it would let me get an MVP out quickly to start getting user feedback (like your own). My end goal is to move to a custom renderer so I'm not relying on Chromium / WebView2. This will take many months of work I suspect (balancing with my FYP @ university & other projects).

[0x457]

Here is a whole story: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/discussions/4089

tl;dr - Tauri uses platform's default implementation of a webview. On Windows it's WebView2 which reports back to MS.

[nosmokewhereiam]

Can you show others how you did this in a post? Truly neat