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Looking at WireShark last night Google Cast was reaching out to Google every 30 seconds. I narrowed it down to my web browser, removing it from the toolbar stop
by gscott 10y ago
Looking at WireShark last night Google Cast was reaching out to Google every 30 seconds. I narrowed it down to my web browser, removing it from the toolbar stopped it.
- andybak 10y agoAssuming some of the logic for determining whether a page is castable (or what options to offer) reside server-side then I can imaginez why this might be necessary. However it also might be poor coding. Was it onerous in terms of resources - or was there any hint of nefarious behaviour? My suspicion is many people will assume the latter despite the rather neutral tone of your post. Therefore I'd be interested to hear more detail.
- gscott 10y agoI have been interested in the Hacking Team leak of spyware and hacking tools. I found in the documentation taken from the hacking team website that when you run Wireshark their spyware looks for that and won't install. I have heard of wireshark before but never tried it, once I had it I saw that google chromecast going on it is like a beacon telling Google my ip address over and over again. Seemed like a bad thing. Maybe not all totally logical, why bother, but being logical all of the time is boring!