Neither have I been able to find a way to turn this off. I can’t find anything concrete about but I would guess it fills a similar use case. You can chose not to use any extensions and it should go away. The request for is where the browser checks if any of your extensions need to be updated. When is is guessing domain names it will request I expect this to go for Chromium as well and thus possibly for Iron. The latter source also talks about another data leakage issue with Chrome. In theory your DNS provider now knows you use Chrome (or any other Chromium based browser… has Opera copied this behaviour?) but nothing else happened. If you use a good DNS provider they will simply return NXDOMAIN and nothing has happened. These should not really hurt your privacy as your ISP already knows who you are and what your IP is. exskdbvyfw and juxbzdzmzx) are done by Chrome to see if your ISP is messing with the DNS. There is also the Fledgling Firefox Health report which may be handy.The first random requests (e.g. That gives developers anonymised data that helps track such issues. * (I can provide additional links if required)Īs an aside have you turned on telemetry. *and all these are now public and exploitable Read this answer in context □ 1 All Replies (4)
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