From 062b400c1cb67429463f666688d84ee5b7ec3c64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baobab Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 01:42:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mention cloudflare, see #46 #48 --- articles/brave.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/articles/brave.html b/articles/brave.html index 0769865..09c720a 100644 --- a/articles/brave.html +++ b/articles/brave.html @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@

Brave makes a request to static1.brave.com every once and a while, which looks like it's used to fetch plugin information[4]? When the url was placed into the browser, it was directed to Google's error 404 page[9]. This seems kind of unsettling that one of Brave's domains would do that:

static brave google error 404 -

A quick curl --head static1.brave.com shows that Brave uses Google's gstatic:

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A quick curl --head static1.brave.com shows that Brave uses Google's gstatic, which also uses Cloudflare as well:

google error 404

On the first run, Brave fetches five extensions from brave-core-ext.s3.brave.com and tries to install them:

brave extensions