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).
This? Finding outbound/inbound requests to an app?
Not sure it's worth an entire post. But:
The application in question is NetLimiter for Windows https://www.netlimiter.com/
(I'm sure there are others, btw)
It acts as a per-application firewall. It also has the ability to block internet access completely, as well as Priorities (bandwith allocation) per application.
By default it will pop up a window every time an application makes web requests, either inbound or outbound.
You have the option to Deny or Allow the operation. And options to have that be temporary (next x minutes) or permanent.
After being set up an alarming number of applications will cause NetLimiter popups, but very soon everything will either be allowed or blocked.
Tinos|1 year ago
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|1 year ago
tl;dr - Tauri uses platform's default implementation of a webview. On Windows it's WebView2 which reports back to MS.
nosmokewhereiam|1 year ago
haddonist|1 year ago
Not sure it's worth an entire post. But:
The application in question is NetLimiter for Windows https://www.netlimiter.com/ (I'm sure there are others, btw)
It acts as a per-application firewall. It also has the ability to block internet access completely, as well as Priorities (bandwith allocation) per application.
By default it will pop up a window every time an application makes web requests, either inbound or outbound.
You have the option to Deny or Allow the operation. And options to have that be temporary (next x minutes) or permanent.
After being set up an alarming number of applications will cause NetLimiter popups, but very soon everything will either be allowed or blocked.