Hardware, platform and safety / Privacy and data
Does the launcher contact the internet?
Designed in a document, no code yet C0038
Once, when it is opened and connected: a plain request for a signed update manifest that carries no account data. That reveals your network address and the time to whoever serves the file. A setting to switch the request off exists in the library; whether it is on by default is not decided.
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