Phoning home to accounts.google.com

[GHLover]

Expected behavior

No phoning home to google

Actual behavior

The software phones home to google on startup. The output on the command line is the following: [ERROR:cert_verify_proc_nss.cc(974)] CERT_VerifyCert...for accounts.google.com failed err=-8179

How to reproduce

Get a firewall that will warn you of any outgoing connections. Startup up the software. It will phone home to google.

I am running the app with --disable-sync --disable-background-networking --disable-component-update and it is still contacting google. It is like a virus basically trying to send data to google

[ffanny]

Would you please provide an NW app demo for reproducing? Which always phones home to google on startup.

[bluthen]

I'm not sure if this is what you need but:
If I download nwjs v0.37.1 for linux:
Then I run netstat -tpnc
I start ./nw just by itself, so it use the base plain NW.JS page and nothing else, I see in netstat:

tcp 0 0 10.11.72.249:41016 172.217.4.205:443 ESTABLISHED 12991/./nw

172.217.4.205 is a google IP.
https://ipinfo.io/172.217.4.205