Why vscodium is trying to connect with redirector.gvt1.com ?

[undali]

I've installed codium 1.52.1 from release section (https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/1.52.1/codium_1.52.1-1608165462_arm64.deb)

On start codium trying to connect with redirector.gvt1.com. Is it intentionally?

[setanarut]

https://www.systemtek.co.uk/2017/08/what-is-gvt1-com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/aszz9i/redirectorgvt1com_is_this_a_virus_or_not/

[stripedpajamas]

I have no idea. More investigation required.

[o-dka]

Redirection service used by google

[setanarut]

this is not normal. Is it valid for macos and windows?

[GitMensch]

Can you verify if version 1.52.0 has the same issue?

[wolczek]

The same issue is present in 1.54.3

It looks like the connection is initiated from electron spellchecker https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/patches/chromium/feat_add_support_for_overriding_the_base_spellchecker_download_url.patch#L44

[daiyam]

Have you uncheck all the settings for @tag:usesOnlineServices or Online Services Settings?

[wolczek]

Yes, I had everything unchecked.

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[GitMensch]

Rechecked:

The electron patch is still that way:

https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/184ac2b382e8324a0b3db1944fd17cdd6ccffff9/patches/chromium/feat_add_support_for_overriding_the_base_spellchecker_download_url.patch#L43-L44

It leads to an option to override the URL by a call to SpellcheckHunspellDictionary::SetBaseDownloadURL, which is only called by SetSpellCheckerDictionaryDownloadURL and was added with https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/22382.

Both its use and override option is described at https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/44491b023ac2653538b7ac36bb73f3085a938666/docs/tutorial/spellchecker.md#does-the-spellchecker-use-any-google-services. But: that function is not called in upstream vscode and therefore if SpellcheckHunspellDictionary is used the default URL would be used.

Open next check: where is the SpellcheckHunspellDictionary used can this be disabled already.

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[GitMensch]

... should stay open until someone had the option to check further - and possibly patch it away or make it configurable

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