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Perplexity.ai tries to connect via UDP without being open

3 points by roscas ↗ HN
perplexity.ai tris to make a udp connection without me having it's page open. I even removed the Chromium shortcut because it might just been that, but no. So what is going on? I've used it a few times but how is it connecting without I'm using it or even the website open?

With the website it keeps to connect to their site, ok, I don't mind, but trying to connect this is is very very... strange.

This is Chromium, their website is not open, shortcut removed, I don't even know if there is an extension but I don't have any.

Keep in mind that is is an UDP that is trying to escape my pc...

update: I suspend the pc every time, and the connection comes like 10 minutes after I'm using the network. And yes it is being made from /usr/lib/chromium

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Bender
Do you mean HTTP/3.0 (QUIC) which uses UDP? Did they perhaps install a service that checks for updates utilizing Chromium? What OS is this on? Did you capture a tcpdump of it?
roscas
After a reboot, at least until now there is no connections being tried.

So my conclusion for now is, in some strange way, connections made by the site (that like so many others, keeps connecting to their servers) kept alive and retries even with the page being closed already.

So for now, it looks more like a Chromium bug.