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fetch.tunnel.googlezip.net

what exactly is it for?

         

SumGuy

11:25 pm on Sep 6, 2023 (gmt 0)

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Occasionally I get a page request from a google IP with a host-name something.fetch.tunnel.googlezip.net. There seems to be an assortment of them, various IP's, country specific, but still they are assigned to google.

Is there any solid info as to what's behind these hits?

Peter_S

6:41 am on Sep 7, 2023 (gmt 0)

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This is (was) related to Chrome’s data saver mode on Android. This mode was depreciated and removed last year. It's certainly comes from Android users still using an old version of Chrome.

It might occasionally also be used to prefetch links of the Google's SERP.