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Signing and connecting
Connecting a wallet is permission for a site to ask you to sign. It is not, by itself, a payment. A later signature or approval can be the payment.
Connect
The site learns your address. That address has a public history. Connecting is not harmless if you wanted that history private.
Sign and approve
A signature can log you in, list you for an airdrop, or authorise a contract. An approval can let that contract move a token later, when you are not looking.
Read the wallet prompt. If it is a long hex string and a stranger's site, refuse it. Open the real site from a bookmark you made.
Check yourself
Is connecting a wallet the same as sending coins?
Not by itself. A later approval can still move tokens.
After this you can treat connect, sign, and approve as three different permissions.
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