Perplexity.ai tries to connect via UDP without being open

3•roscas•1h ago

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

Comments

Bender•1h ago

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•37m ago

I use Chromium or LibreWolf and use Perplexity site. It cannot install anything I guess as I only use it from the webpage. OS is ArchLinux with Chromium, but I did not use tcpdump yet. I will try it. I notice the connections with OpenSnitch that pop's up every call made that is not authorized. And I can see it was UDP.

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