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:
- A quick curl --head static1.brave.com shows that Brave uses Google's gstatic, which also uses Cloudflare as well:
A quick curl --head static1.brave.com shows that Brave uses Google's gstatic, which uses Cloudflare as well:
On the first run, Brave fetches five extensions from brave-core-ext.s3.brave.com and tries to install them:
