Why is Obsidian connecting periodically to certain domains other than to check for updates?

My firewall shows random HTTPS connections from Obsidian every few minutes to the following domains, while it’s just sitting in the background (haven’t even switched to the app in more than 5 minutes). What are these for?

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a.nel.cloudflare.com is part of Cloudflare’s Network Error Logging (NEL). Obsidian (or an underlying Electron component) may be using it for network health monitoring. Some other Electron-based apps (like VS Code) also do this.

I am not defending them :slight_smile: just what I know from another part of my daily work.

Cheers, Marko :nerd_face:

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