Hi; I’ve been seeing these unproxied requests in my outgoing firewall on all three of my macOS installs (two computers, three user accounts), for some time now. I’ve been blocking them for now.
I use a half dozen Brave profiles for different tasks, and in all of them, I’ve disabled Brave rewards, Binance, IPFS, I’ve only ever visited brave://wallet/ before immediately closing that tab. I keep the photo backgrounds enabled, and in a single profile, the sponsored images.
May 24 20:44:16 unbound[pid:0] query: api.infura.io. A IN
May 24 20:44:16 unbound[pid:0] reply: api.infura.io. A IN NOERROR 0.000000 1 136
May 24 20:44:16 unbound[pid:0] query: mainnet-infura.brave.com. A IN
May 24 20:44:16 unbound[pid:0] reply: mainnet-infura.brave.com. A IN NOERROR 0.000000 1 88
May 24 20:44:16 unbound[pid:0] query: min-api.cryptocompare.com. A IN
May 24 20:44:16 unbound[pid:0] reply: min-api.cryptocompare.com. A IN NOERROR 0.000000 1 93
May 24 20:44:44 unbound[pid:0] query: hfq2h9152m63.statuspage.io. A IN
May 24 20:44:44 unbound[pid:0] reply: hfq2h9152m63.statuspage.io. A IN NOERROR 0.000000 1 88
I had never seen mainnet-infura.brave.com
until I started rummaging around the builtin extensions today, and found odbfpeeihdkbihmopkbjmoonfanlbfcl
, containing some files with “log” related names. After quitting Brave and backing up my settings I deleted that folder in all my profiles, and upon restarting Brave, I suddenly started seeing mainnet-infura.brave.com
in addition to the unproxied Infura API, the Infura status page, and the CryptoCompare API. I even tried disabling sponsored images on the single profile, but through it at first appeared to have stemmed the flow, the requests continue.
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