I just upgraded to Waveform. Then upgraded to 8.27.
It then tried to connect to Amazon, Google, and Bing.
8.26 didn't seem to.
What in the world?
Edit; It seems it's actually Biotek 1.65 I installed at the same time.
Changed the title.
Why is Biotek trying to connect to Amazon, Google, and Bing?
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- KVRist
- 473 posts since 1 Feb, 2006
what tool on your computer did tell you that?
before stating such claims, please present evidence.
before stating such claims, please present evidence.
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- KVRian
- 1320 posts since 3 May, 2005 from Victoria, BC
BioTek is built with the JUCE framework. When testing if your internet connection is working, JUCE tries to see if it can access bing, amazon, etc. BioTekk tests to see if the internet connection is working before checking if there are any updates available.
You can see source code here:
https://github.com/WeAreROLI/JUCE/blob/ ... s.cpp#L381
You can see source code here:
https://github.com/WeAreROLI/JUCE/blob/ ... s.cpp#L381
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- KVRAF
- 1790 posts since 30 Dec, 2012
Well if we only checked out website then we'd only know if that is available. We use the other three to determine if there is any active internet connection at all and show appropriate information accordingly.
We use the same download manager to deliver not only software updates but plugin content as well so we can't really make this optional from the outset otherwise most people would fail to get their content and be confused by this.
We will be working to improve the download manager soon though so perhaps we can make this process more transparent in the future.
We use the same download manager to deliver not only software updates but plugin content as well so we can't really make this optional from the outset otherwise most people would fail to get their content and be confused by this.
We will be working to improve the download manager soon though so perhaps we can make this process more transparent in the future.