diff --git a/internal/profile-meta.mjs b/internal/profile-meta.mjs
index 038b6c69b..3533d195c 100644
--- a/internal/profile-meta.mjs
+++ b/internal/profile-meta.mjs
@@ -24,14 +24,16 @@ export function readProfileMeta(dir, profileName) {
       heavy: meta?.heavy === true,
       widget: CORNERS.includes(corner) ? { corner } : null,
       label: name ? name.trim() : '',
+      // Where the plugin runs ("web", "desktop"…); absent = web. A desktop-only plugin is never a gallery tab.
+      targets: Array.isArray(meta?.targets) ? meta.targets.filter((t) => typeof t === 'string') : null,
     }
-  } catch { return { stage: 'experimental', heavy: false, widget: null, label: '' } }
+  } catch { return { stage: 'experimental', heavy: false, widget: null, label: '', targets: null } }
 }
 
 /** The optional manifest keys for one profile (stage always; heavy / widget only when set). */
 export function profileMetaFields(dir, profileName) {
   const m = readProfileMeta(dir, profileName)
-  return { stage: m.stage, ...(m.label ? { label: m.label } : {}), ...(m.heavy ? { heavy: true } : {}), ...(m.widget ? { widget: m.widget } : {}) }
+  return { stage: m.stage, ...(m.label ? { label: m.label } : {}), ...(m.targets ? { targets: m.targets } : {}), ...(m.heavy ? { heavy: true } : {}), ...(m.widget ? { widget: m.widget } : {}) }
 }
 
 /** A bundle is production if ANY of its profiles says so. */
diff --git a/plugin-designs/doxa-maps-spa/doxa-maps-spa.vue b/plugin-designs/doxa-maps-spa/doxa-maps-spa.vue
index fe27e16b8..bbc738257 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/doxa-maps-spa/doxa-maps-spa.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/doxa-maps-spa/doxa-maps-spa.vue
@@ -599,6 +599,10 @@ function experimentalTabsFromManifest(manifest) {
     // so this chooses which of its profiles that row opens on.
     const profiles = Array.isArray(b.profiles) ? b.profiles : []
     if (!profiles.length) continue
+    // Not for the web: a plugin whose every profile is a corner widget or declares targets without "web"
+    // (Rudder: desktop + the Plugin Studio's corner). As a tab it probed a backend that a static host
+    // does not have, and every embed of the gallery logged three 404s.
+    if (profiles.every(p => p.widget || (Array.isArray(p.targets) && !p.targets.includes('web')))) continue
     const entry = profiles.find(p => p.isMap) || profiles.find(p => p.profile === id) || profiles[0]
     // A discovered tab nests the same way a curated one does: its ELEMENT, loaded from the bundle's
     // own scriptUrl. Both are read straight off the manifest, so this path needs no knowledge of the
diff --git a/plugin-designs/rudder-voice/rudder-voice.vue b/plugin-designs/rudder-voice/rudder-voice.vue
index 69cb5735c..a0cb2087d 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/rudder-voice/rudder-voice.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/rudder-voice/rudder-voice.vue
@@ -553,7 +553,17 @@ function onKey(ev) {
 async function fetchStatus() {
   try { const r = await fetch(apiBase.value + '/status'); if (r.ok) applyStatus(await r.json()) } catch {}
 }
+// A backend can only exist on the dev server (bun run dev), in the desktop app (Tauri), or where the host
+// says so (an explicit apiBase). A built page on a static host has none, so it makes NO network call there:
+// it probed /api/rudder anyway and logged three 404s on every page that carried it.
+const backendKnown = !!cfg.value.apiBase || import.meta.env.DEV ||
+  (typeof window !== 'undefined' && (!!window.__TAURI__ || !!window.__TAURI_INTERNALS__ || location.protocol === 'tauri:'))
 onMounted(() => {
+  if (!backendKnown) {
+    engine.value = 'offline'
+    window.addEventListener('keydown', onKey)
+    return
+  }
   fetchStatus()
   connect()
   refreshDevices()