api.rewards.brave.com
grant.rewards.brave.com
A quick update: These requests have been reported as a bug and for the most part have been fixed (with a couple exceptions). I'll remove this section once the bug has been completely fixed.[12]
Brave on first run sends a request to fetch the library used for checking spelling errors:
- Brave on startup sends a request to variations.brave.com. By the looks of this issue,[11] brave uses this to turn on and off features. There isn't a way to disable this as of yet.
Brave on startup sends a request to variations.brave.com. Brave uses this to turn on and off features. There isn't a way to disable this as of yet.[11].
Brave fetches the list of affiliates through laptop-updates.brave.com:
- 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:
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].
A quick curl --head static1.brave.com shows that Brave uses Google's gstatic, which uses Cloudflare as well:
11. Allow to opt-out of Griffin variations [web.archive.org]
+12. + Only make requests to *.rewards.brave.com... + [web.archive.org]