I read an article a while ago that put pretty convincing arguments forward to not use Brave. You should be able to find it if you search on Lemmy
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Use wireshark?
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I'd uninstall Brave if you care about privacy. Also check out the creator...
It seem that's a cloudflare load balancer IP so it doesn't really give any clues as to where the data is going.
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Could it be a connectivity check for captive portals?
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maybe you have opt-out logs enabled? try to disable them 😃
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Using a privte tab doesn't send anything out when idle.
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Brave Homepage? Sync disabled? Update check?
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Try removing bitwarden and do the same test. Ibet bitwarden is checking for updates that it needs to sync.
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You can likely inspect the traffic if you use Wireshark.
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