Incoming connexions

[squalou]

Description of the issue:

More a question than an issue, similar to the unaswered one here on macOs

Security: Why does Brave (or Chromium or Google Chrome) want to accept incoming connections?

Why does Brave (or Chromium or Google Chrome) want to accept incoming connections? (A pointer to the relevant browser source/component handling incoming connections would be helpful.) I searched (googling and Brave content searches for “incoming”) and only found places where this question was asked re a related browser, and even then, find no answers. Most notably: On r/chrome : Do_you_want_google_chrome_to_accept_incoming connections - very detailed ask, with results of their googling, sc…

WHY are there incoming connexion to Brave

Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.

• launch Brave
• launch a firewall tool (right now I’m testing portmaster which is a promising early alpha tool)
• see that incoming connexions to Brave are blocked

Actual Result (gifs and screenshots are welcome!):

See incoming connexions blocked. Asbolutely no functionality issue with that blocked.

Expected result:

Nothing like that without an explanation at least

Reproduces how often:

everytime

Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):

Version 1.17.73 Chromium: 87.0.4280.67 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)

Linux Arch