I turned off telemetry and “privacy preserving analytics” but saw the URL below in my DNS logs. Does anybody know what it is? I found this repo but don’t know what it means.

star-randsrv.bsg.brave.com

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I’m using the stable version of Brave. Not nightly or Beta.

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Brave does crypto… Need I say more?

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Just warning, Brave is sort of a touchy subject here on Lemmy

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I get it. My privacy settings explicitly say do not send telemetry, analytics or whatever else you want to call it. But they ignore my request and try to capture the data anyway. Dunno why they call themselves a privacy focused browser. I already uninstalled it and put in the Mullvad browser.

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No, I am on the stable version of Brave.

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