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Description of the issue:
Brave is making fairly frequent network requests to a handful of sites with no apparent reason. the sites change depending on the country the VPN server I’m connected to is in (still present when not on a vpn as well)
some of the sites seen (via either packet capture or dns request log):
cgd[.]pt
www.custojusto[.]pt
www.worten[.]pt
noticiasaominuto[.]com
script.nettix[.]fi
www.iltalehti[.]fi
www.is[.]fi
yle[.]fi
fi.m.wikipedia[.]org
ebaystatic.ebay.map.fastly[.]net
espncdn[.]com
fbcdn[.]net
instagram[.]com
How can this issue be reproduced?
- start brave
- observe network traffic
Expected result:
Brave Version( check About Brave):
Brace 1.66.115, Chromium 125.0.6422.112
Mobile Device details
Samsung Galaxy A13, Android 13
Additional Information:
I have news turned off and the new tab page is set to blank.
What are the connections for?