[krisrm]

Seems a little ironic to call out a piece of software whose literal job it is to connect to the internet for... Connecting to the internet.

Tongue in cheek aside, I don't know much about Brave - is there some specific reason that it needs an always-on server to call home to?

[thayne]

Perhaps a little ironic, but very valid. You shouldn't have to connect to brave servers to be able to go to your search engine, email,local network service, etc.

[fastball]

Right but that's not what happened. The author needed to be able to connect to Brave's servers in order to install an extension to the browser from the chrome web store, to where Brave is proxying requests.

[jonathansampson]

The user attempted to install an extension; this results in a request to Google's Servers (which Brave proxies to prevent users from making unintended contact with Google). If Brave's proxy happened to return a 401 response (requesting authentication), then the user would see the "Access Denied" message shown in their screenshot. It's also possible that this message could have come from Google's own server (via the Brave proxy). It's not possible to tell from the data available.

We're looking into this from our end, to see if there were any recent proxy-interruptions which might explain the user's experience.

Sampson (Brave Team)

[jonathansampson]

Resolved: User had a very out-of-date build of Brave. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29471236 for more details.

[rmbyrro]

The issue isn't that it requires internet connection, obviously, but that it requires connection to a specific IP (Brave server) before you can use some features.

[sh4un]

Make sense if they have a proxy to avoid direct Google contact.