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		iRobbery on March 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Each Firefox download has a unique identifier little snitch pops up more here for updates checks and others i assume for brave (idle, not browsing) than chrome does.

xtat on March 18, 2022 [–]

Interestingly this is likely for privacy reasons in a roundabout way. Brave doesn't connect to Google and so had to implement much of the serverside functionality (updates, sync etc) itself.

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