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Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood Cover

False positive or not, one of my security programs has disabled it from running an internal script as a potential tracker.

Though I know the song, the artist and what it's about.
 
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Storm Hess said:
Hmmm...tracker? Ok.
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Hint: It's generally regarded as one of the top ten browser extensions developed by a long-established and highly respected group of developers. I'm guessing whatever spyware this may launch, is something you are unaware of.
 
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Judge said:
Hint: It's generally regarded as one of the top ten browser extensions developed by a long-established and highly respected group of developers. I'm guessing whatever spyware this may launch, is something you are unaware of.
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What extension plz?
 
Judge said:
Hint: It's generally regarded as one of the top ten browser extensions developed by a long-established and highly respected group of developers. I'm guessing whatever spyware this may launch, is something you are unaware of.
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This goes to soundcloud.com ... I checked the link. It goes to my song. Please provide a screenshot of what you're referring to.
 
Judge said:
Hint: It's generally regarded as one of the top ten browser extensions developed by a long-established and highly respected group of developers. I'm guessing whatever spyware this may launch, is something you are unaware of.
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Installed privacybadger and wappalyzer. It shows 2 possible trackers...both are all over the internet. This forum shows 20 instances of spyware...are going to stop using it?
 
Storm Hess said:
Installed privacybadger and wappalyzer. It shows 2 possible trackers...both are all over the internet. This forum shows 20 instances of spyware...are going to stop using it?
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What my extension showed went beyond merely citing a number of possible trackers. It replaced your entire post with a warning. Unfortunately it doesn't rate the severity of what it involves. Only that it has preempted your post altogether citing it has "replaced your sound widget". Allowing me an option to click it once, or accept it perpetually or just pass on it altogether.

This type of notification goes beyond the usual logging of a tracker with just an integer. This is what concerns me most. Where it not only preempted me from accessing the link, but warned me graphically. It could be an innocuous tracker, or something else. I just don't know. Where my curiosity simply doesn't exceed unknown risk.

Being on the cautious side, when I see something like that coming from much of any third-party security program, I'm not likely to just ignore it. I sometimes investigate such things, and on very rare occasions I might even alter how such a program reacts to such things. But only if I'm convinced the issue at hand is a benign one. Besides, I have other security programs that would purge such trackers whether I catch them manually or not at all.

Such incidents don't happen very often here, but they do happen on occasion. Though it's precisely because I use such software that I don't have to concern myself so much about this particular domain. In any event I'm just the "messenger"- not our host.
 
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