I viewed the App Privacy Report. Brave repeatedly contacted static.ads.brave[.]com (28 times) and geo.ads.brave[.]com (27 times) in the past week, despite being configured according to PrivacyGuides recommendation, with all telemetry, Brave Rewards and Brave News were off.
Is this normal behavior? Is Brave for iOS still safe to use?
Brave does pings some domain to update their in-built ads blocklist and some extenstion component related domains are pinged.
On android i regularly see go-updater.brave.com , componentupdater.brave.com , brave-core-ext.s3.brave.com , vairations.brave.com , redirector.brave.com being pinged. But these domains are understandable from usability persepctive.
But the domains you mentioned , haven’t been in my logs.
Are these related to brave search ? maybe you can check for any telemetry relating to it.
No I have not used Brave search at any point in the past week, and search.brave.com was not in the log.
Brave did also contact adblock-data.s3.brave.com which I believe is updating the filter list. But the *.ads.brave.com domains seem fishy.
Some other domains like grant.rewards.brave.com and rewards.brave.com were also contacted, even though I have Rewards off.
AFAIK static.ads.brave.com returns a list of sites where brave will show monetarized apps. Not really an issue for privacy IMHO.
