After upgrade PIA going to clients2.google.com

alucard13alucard13
in Software and System Updates
I updated my Mac OSX client yesterday and now its loading ruby and going to several IP's which i am guessing is normal. what concerns me is i see something called NWJS going to clients2.google.com. I dont know if this should be trusted.

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  • Max-PMax-P
    I have just tried it out on my end and can confirm this really happens.

    The request is thankfully harmless (apart that it talks to Google that is). The exact request is an HTTP GET to http://clients2.google.com/time/1/current?cup2key=1:20182461&cup2hreq=e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 which seems to be related to getting the current time, likely for validating HTTPS stuff.

    NWJS is a library that PIA uses to run the GUI of the app, which is essentially a very stripped down Chromium browser. Being Chromium, we disable a lot of extra stuff we don't need. Looks like we missed that one! That's definitely not intended nor required for what we use NWJS for.

    I've reported this to the developers so we can neuter this request. Thanks for the heads up!
  • alucard13alucard13
    Max-P,
    Thank you for the info. I appreciate the prompt response. 
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