# Hangout services API - Brave

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/hangout-services-api-brave/24647
**Category:** Questions
**Tags:** browsers
**Created:** 2025-02-03T16:48:27Z
**Posts:** 3

## Post 1 by @PaulF — 2025-02-03T16:48:27Z

On July 2024, an API integrated at hangout services was detected in each chromium based browsers (including Brave), allowing every sites to access device informations, searchs logs… I think this privacy concern has ever been discussed.  
Currently, does Brave disable/remove this service ?

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## Post 2 by @Valynor — 2025-02-03T16:51:34Z



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## Post 3 by @Valynor — 2025-02-03T16:52:08Z

Has been discussed before, please use the search before posting:

> [@All Chromium browsers including Brave give special access to system/tab CPU/GPU only for Google domains](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/all-chromium-browsers-including-brave-give-special-access-to-system-tab-cpu-gpu-only-for-google-domains/19380/3):
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> Brave lets you disable this in its extensions settings, with this toggle. [brave-hangouts] Always wondered what it did. Glad I always disabled it. Running this code in the dev console lets you test the API (from a [comment on the HN discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919061)): chrome.runtime.sendMessage( 'nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome', { method: 'cpu.getInfo' }, response =\> { console.log('CPU Info:\n', JSON.stringify(response, null, 2)); } ); I tested this with the Hangouts extension on and …