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A comment on Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages by asdkhadsj on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @01:57PM (#18393881)
Wait, is the auto-update all that's needed for network? I assumed it was license validation or something. If it's just updating, couldn't you provide a different method of updating like manual update checking, and then peoples concerns would be solved?
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Re:Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages by itdaniher on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:46PM (#18394287)
No, it does use the network to validate registration keys. Presumably this means a TLS connection per invocation of the binary.

> TabNine makes web requests only for the purposes of downloading updates and validating registration keys.

from https://tabnine.com/faq

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