Warning to all Brave Browser Users
Blocking variations.brave.com which is used for A/B testing could potentially break Brave’s functionalities. For me did Brave’s “forgetful browsing” feature broke which seems to be disabled by default if you block this domain.
I’ll be the one to stay on topic instead of joining the omgchromebad crowd.
My question/concern would be, why would a browser need to connect to an outside source in order to Forget your browsing? What would it need to reference?
The new Forgetful browsing feature (like the extension Cookie AutoDelete) is still new and they are rolling it slowly to the users. The linked domain is their server controlling the rollout. It’s plausible that the server being not reachable, the browser would disable the feature (debatable but ok).
Firefox and Chrome have the same kind of servers controlling individual settings and feature.
Update:
Chrome / Brave share the same code for controlling features. It’s called Google Finch. Obviously, Brave operates its own server for that and does not use Google ones.
The service and code are public:
https://github.com/brave/brave-variations https://griffin.brave.com/
A detailed explanation by Google Dev : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teSgavrweWI
Firefox “variations” is called Normandy https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollout
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