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<blockquote data-quote="simmerskool" data-source="post: 1108163" data-attributes="member: 61091">ok more and perhaps conflicting info about my fedora firefox connection to 93.243.107.34&nbsp; when I looked it up on 07 Nov it resolved to Deutsche Telekom AG &gt; Internet Service Provider.today on a different linux VM shell cmd reports as firefox-b 3601 TCP fedora:52710-&gt;93.243.107.34.bc.googleusercontent.com:https (ESTABLISHED).&nbsp; my first thought was firefox uses Google&#039;s Safe Browsing service.&nbsp; But is it?&nbsp; fwiw -- chatgpt 4o says:&nbsp; The googleusercontent.com domain is often associated with Google-hosted resources, such as cached content, files, scripts, and assets. Websites or services that leverage Google’s infrastructure (e.g., Google Cloud or certain web apps) may route traffic through this domain.If a website you&#039;re visiting uses services like Google Fonts, hosted libraries (e.g., jQuery from Google&#039;s CDN), or other Google cloud resources, Firefox may establish connections to these domains.&nbsp; While this doesn’t inherently mean a violation of privacy, some users see it as a concern because it involves connections to Google’s servers, which could be logged by Google.So is it curious that a week ago, who_is lookup resolved to German Telco, on more than one lookup service &amp; today a different type search says it&#039;s googleusercontent.com? anyone have more informed info about this EDIT update search for <a href="https://googleusercontent.com/" target="_blank">https://googleusercontent.com/</a> and it comes back&nbsp; &quot;404. That’s an error.&nbsp; The requested URL / was not found on this server.&nbsp; That’s all we know.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="simmerskool, post: 1108163, member: 61091"] ok more and perhaps conflicting info about my fedora firefox connection to 93.243.107.34 when I looked it up on 07 Nov it resolved to Deutsche Telekom AG > Internet Service Provider. today on a different linux VM shell cmd reports as firefox-b 3601 TCP fedora:52710->93.243.107.34.bc.googleusercontent.com:https (ESTABLISHED). my first thought was firefox uses Google's Safe Browsing service. But is it? fwiw -- chatgpt 4o says: The googleusercontent.com domain is often associated with Google-hosted resources, such as cached content, files, scripts, and assets. Websites or services that leverage Google’s infrastructure (e.g., Google Cloud or certain web apps) may route traffic through this domain. If a website you're visiting uses services like Google Fonts, hosted libraries (e.g., jQuery from Google's CDN), or other Google cloud resources, Firefox may establish connections to these domains. While this doesn’t inherently mean a violation of privacy, some users see it as a concern because it involves connections to Google’s servers, which could be logged by Google. So is it curious that a week ago, who_is lookup resolved to German Telco, on more than one lookup service & today a different type search says it's googleusercontent.com? anyone have more informed info about this EDIT update search for [URL]https://googleusercontent.com/[/URL] and it comes back[B] "404.[/B] That’s an error. The requested URL / was not found on this server. That’s all we know." [/QUOTE]

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