Observed multiple calls that are not "*.brave.com" when first time launching the app

[hffvld]

Description

Observed multiple calls that are not *.brave.com when first time launching the app

Steps to reproduce

1. Uninstall and fresh install Brave
2. Launch the app
3. Check calls in Charles Proxy

Actual result

I see google calls when first time launching the app

1.51.x #1	1.51.x #2	1.50.x
1	2	3

Expected result

Brave must only contact *.brave.com endpoints on the first launch

Issue reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current Play Store version? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the current Play Store Beta version? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the current Play Store Nightly version? Yes

Device details

• Install type (ARM, x86): ARM
• Device type (Phone, Tablet, Phablet): Galaxy Tab S8 [Tablet]
• Android version: Android 13 [gts8wifixx-user 13 TP1A.220624.014 release-keys]

Brave version

1.51.110 Chromium: 113.0.5672.77 (Official Build) (32-bit)
1.50.121 Chromium: 112.0.5615.138 (Official Build) (32-bit)

Website problems only

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Additional information

[SergeyZhukovsky]

Some of them are mentioned in that issue #15167 as well.

[SergeyZhukovsky]

@vlad-hoff are you sure all the requests come from Brave? It's easy to say if you take a look on a UA string. It should look like
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 or similar. From what I see on my tests calls to play.googleapis.com for example come from something Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.32 Safari/537.36 with an ancient Chrome 60. Calls to connectivitycheck.gstatic.com are also from the same cr60 UA.
config.edge.skype.com from Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 12; SM-G973F Build/SP1A.210812.016)
in.appcenter.ms from Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 12; SM-G973F Build/SP1A.210812.016)
self.events.data.microsoft.com from Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 12; SM-G973F Build/SP1A.210812.016)
play-fe.googleapis.com from com.android.vending/83571920 (Linux; U; Android 12; en_CA; SM-G973F; Build/SP1A.210812.016; Cronet/113.0.5672.24)
I'm not sure what is googlevideo.com in your tests as I never had that unless I go directly to that website.
There is a list of other calls that we do and explanation to them:

www.gstatic.com                                - a json list of suggested sites for NTP
static.xx.fbcdn.net                              - facebook icon on NTP
images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com  - amazon icon on NTP
a.espncdn.com                                   - espn icon on NTP
en.m.wikipedia.org                             - wikipedia icon on NTP
s.yimg.com                                         - yahoo icon on NTP
ir.ebaystatic.com                                - ebay icon on NTP
www.instagram.com                           - instagram icon on NTP

So far I don't see any unexpected calls. Let me know if you have some concerns or questions.