From 4820b7266213a804658e687e5039ad7a40fa2cf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baobab Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 01:29:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added more information to the brave article about the rewards program. --- articles/brave.html | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/brave.html b/articles/brave.html index 16c779b..e6b6aa4 100644 --- a/articles/brave.html +++ b/articles/brave.html @@ -34,14 +34,15 @@

api.rewards.brave.com

grant.rewards.brave.com

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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]

Miscellaneous requests worth noting

Brave on first run sends a request to fetch the library used for checking spelling errors:

brave spelling library -

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.

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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 verification tool

Brave fetches the list of affiliates through laptop-updates.brave.com:

custom headers -

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:

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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].

static brave google error 404

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

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11. Allow to opt-out of Griffin variations [web.archive.org]

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12. + Only make requests to *.rewards.brave.com... + [web.archive.org]

This article was created on 5/7/2018
This article was last edited on 6/19/2021 @@ -104,4 +108,4 @@ - \ No newline at end of file +