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Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/article>\n\n <div class=\"onebox-metadata\">\n \n \n <\/div>\n\n <div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","upvoteCount":2,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T00:41:48.119Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/6","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"PatrickFarrell","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/PatrickFarrell"}},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":"<p>I installed Firefox on a fresh Server 2019, went to <a href=\"http://veeam.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">veeam.com<\/a> and the intermediate stop is <a href=\"http://facebook.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">facebook.com<\/a>… How to prevent this? Using Brave? Another browser with built-in VPN?<\/p>\n<p>I’ve been seeing it for years, for some reason today I got fed up with it. Maybe it’s the fact that is a brand new machine, with its first browser and first visit and it’s already being sucked by Facebook, I don’t know. But I’m tired of it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>","upvoteCount":3,"datePublished":"2025-02-19T22:16:18.559Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Viking1971","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<p>you are saying that if you use the URL <a href=\"https://veeam.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">https://veeam.com<\/a> you get redirected to <a href=\"https://facebook.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">https://facebook.com<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>That definitely isn’t normal and you have something weird going on you need to solve. My first thought is some kind of DNS poisoning if this is truly a fresh install with nothing on it.<\/p>\n<p>if I go to <a href=\"http://veeam.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">veeam.com<\/a> I get <a href=\"http://veeam.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">veeam.com<\/a> directly without facebook in the middle<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2025-02-19T23:53:33.049Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"molan","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/molan"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<p>Why are you using a browser on a server at all.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"Viking1971\" data-post=\"1\" data-topic=\"1177210\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"quote-controls\"><\/div>\n<img alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/viking1971/48/736090_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"> Viking1971:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I’ve been seeing it for years<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Any chance of a video clip?<\/p>\n<p>If you’re seeing facebook in the firewall/proxy logs, but it doesn’t directly visit this, that’s because they have their links and badges at the bottom of the page, it’s to be expected some content from each of these loads.<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T00:22:40.788Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rod-IT","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Rod-IT"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<aside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"molan\" data-post=\"2\" data-topic=\"1177210\" data-full=\"true\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"quote-controls\"><\/div>\n<img alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/molan/48/25062_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"> molan:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>you are saying that if you use the URL <a href=\"https://veeam.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">https://veeam.com<\/a> you get redirected to <a href=\"https://facebook.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">https://facebook.com<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>That definitely isn’t normal and you have something weird going on you need to solve. My first thought is some kind of DNS poisoning if this is truly a fresh install with nothing on it.<\/p>\n<p>if I go to <a href=\"http://veeam.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">veeam.com<\/a> I get <a href=\"http://veeam.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">veeam.com<\/a> directly without facebook in the middle<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>I apologize, I didn’t express myself correctly. I’m referring to the stops that traffic make before hitting the website you actually wanted; that little sign in the lower left corner that reads “google ad services” or in this case “<a href=\"http://facebook.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">facebook.com<\/a>” while you wait for the website to load. Sometimes while you wait you can read “waiting in <a href=\"http://facebook.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">facebook.com<\/a>”, etc ,<\/p>\n<p>this:<br>\n<div class=\"lightbox-wrapper\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af.jpeg\" data-download-href=\"/uploads/short-url/pm3uPck7j638vb6ElzMhGvGxivJ.jpeg?dl=1\" title=\"image\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\"><img src=\"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af_2_690x435.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" data-base62-sha1=\"pm3uPck7j638vb6ElzMhGvGxivJ\" width=\"690\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af_2_690x435.jpeg, https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af_2_1035x652.jpeg 1.5x, https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af.jpeg 2x\" data-dominant-color=\"F6F5F6\"><div class=\"meta\"><svg class=\"fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use href=\"#far-image\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"filename\">image<\/span><span class=\"informations\">1347×851 217 KB<\/span><svg class=\"fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use href=\"#discourse-expand\"><\/use><\/svg><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T00:33:01.838Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/4","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Viking1971","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<aside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"Rod-IT\" data-post=\"3\" data-topic=\"1177210\" data-full=\"true\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"quote-controls\"><\/div>\n<img alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/rod-it/48/903265_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"> Rod-IT:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why are you using a browser on a server at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>What is the alternative?<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T00:34:51.730Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/5","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Viking1971","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<aside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"Viking1971\" data-post=\"5\" data-topic=\"1177210\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"quote-controls\"><\/div>\n<img alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/viking1971/48/736090_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"> Viking1971:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What is the alternative?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Use the browser on your desktop/laptop.<\/p>\n<p>As for your screenshot, you’re clicking sponsored content which Google serve ads. You said you went to <a href=\"http://Veeam.com\">Veeam.com<\/a> but you shared a google search.<\/p>\n<p>Either visit the site directly or scroll down to avoid the advertisement links.<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T02:04:51.483Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/7","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rod-IT","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Rod-IT"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<p>To track the click before redirecting to the destination site. Used to bill for the ad and other stats.<\/p>\n<p>HTML ping attribute can be used by sites instead, but older browsers and ones configured to prevent tracking would often ignore that attribute. Therefore, it’s common for sites to stick with the old method of using a redirect.<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T04:26:07.766Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/8","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"matthew-martin","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/matthew-martin"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<p>In your example you are visiting a paid add<br>\n<div class=\"lightbox-wrapper\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/e/d/6/ed6b9385ec1d31fc5b325206c1bb4e377fa66314.png\" data-download-href=\"/uploads/short-url/xSjDMdmo5Zdu56L10qyTZ4YBOD2.png?dl=1\" title=\"image\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\"><img src=\"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/e/d/6/ed6b9385ec1d31fc5b325206c1bb4e377fa66314.png\" alt=\"image\" data-base62-sha1=\"xSjDMdmo5Zdu56L10qyTZ4YBOD2\" width=\"472\" height=\"192\"><div class=\"meta\"><svg class=\"fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use href=\"#far-image\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"filename\">image<\/span><span class=\"informations\">472×192 62.4 KB<\/span><svg class=\"fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use href=\"#discourse-expand\"><\/use><\/svg><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n<p>that is why it says Sponsored at the top.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to go directly to Veeam either type in the URL yourself in the address bar instead of searching for it<br>\n<img src=\"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/e/c/9/ec939906286030fbeb77da7a6fba687043ce134e.png\" alt=\"image\" data-base62-sha1=\"xKQUp4gVLmy6lnP4WkYqvLJRZGC\" width=\"532\" height=\"90\"><br>\nor scroll further down the results to get past the sponsored adds placed at the top and find a direct link<br>\n<div class=\"lightbox-wrapper\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/3/6/e/36ea3b258bd14c098c7267fb15f1151250ac9172.png\" data-download-href=\"/uploads/short-url/7PNCvuHlGeC48eR2pK9thLX9P1w.png?dl=1\" title=\"image\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\"><img src=\"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/3/6/e/36ea3b258bd14c098c7267fb15f1151250ac9172_2_645x500.png\" alt=\"image\" data-base62-sha1=\"7PNCvuHlGeC48eR2pK9thLX9P1w\" width=\"645\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/3/6/e/36ea3b258bd14c098c7267fb15f1151250ac9172_2_645x500.png, https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/3/6/e/36ea3b258bd14c098c7267fb15f1151250ac9172_2_967x750.png 1.5x, https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/3/6/e/36ea3b258bd14c098c7267fb15f1151250ac9172_2_1290x1000.png 2x\" data-dominant-color=\"171920\"><div class=\"meta\"><svg class=\"fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use href=\"#far-image\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"filename\">image<\/span><span class=\"informations\">1958×1516 224 KB<\/span><svg class=\"fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use href=\"#discourse-expand\"><\/use><\/svg><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n<p>or use a different search engine that isn’t injecting paid adds at the top of its search results<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T14:11:32.075Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/9","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"molan","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/molan"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<p>Rather than clicking on that link, right click it, copy link location and post the resulting link here. Curious to see what that actually links to.<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T14:39:24.237Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/10","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"PatrickFarrell","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/PatrickFarrell"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<p>Thanks! I’ll give that a try. I don’t see it for Chrome, but maybe I just need a tracking blocker.<\/p>\n<p>Appreciate it.<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T18:50:22.294Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/11","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Viking1971","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<p>I don’t see the problem with occasionally using a secure browser to go to a specific site and do what you need there. I don’t “browse the web” from a server.<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T21:40:34.124Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/12","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Viking1971","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<p><a class=\"mention\" href=\"/u/rod-it\">@Rod-IT<\/a><br>\nThe screenshot was an example of what kind of message I was referring to, not a screenshot of the exact message. I mentioned Facebook because that’s the one I actually saw in this occasion, but this kind of message that indicates that your traffic is being tracked or whatever the word is, is ubiquitous and you only see it in that lower left corner.<\/p>\n<p>I clearly cannot explain myself correctly so I will close or take down this post to avoid further confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T21:41:57.238Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/13","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Viking1971","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<aside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"Viking1971\" data-post=\"13\" data-topic=\"1177210\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"quote-controls\"><\/div>\n<img alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/viking1971/48/736090_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"> Viking1971:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I clearly cannot explain myself correctly so I will close or take down this post to avoid further confusion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"Rod-IT\" data-post=\"3\" data-topic=\"1177210\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"quote-controls\"><\/div>\n<img alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/rod-it/48/903265_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"> Rod-IT:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Any chance of a video clip?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You give up too easily.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"Viking1971\" data-post=\"12\" data-topic=\"1177210\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"quote-controls\"><\/div>\n<img alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/viking1971/48/736090_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"> Viking1971:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I don’t see the problem with occasionally using a secure browser to go to a specific site and do what you need there<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>That;s your choice, but I don’t understand why, on a server, unless it’s an RDS server you would need a browser.<\/p>\n<p>Your example, descriptive or not is one reason you shouldn’t use a browser on a server.<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T21:44:01.452Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/14","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rod-IT","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Rod-IT"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"<aside class=\"quote no-group\" data-username=\"Viking1971\" data-post=\"13\" data-topic=\"1177210\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<div class=\"quote-controls\"><\/div>\n<img alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" src=\"https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/viking1971/48/736090_2.png\" class=\"avatar\"> Viking1971:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>kind of message that indicates that your traffic is being tracked o<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you are using a search engine you are being tracked. no way around it.<br>\nIf you don’t want google to track your search history don’t use google search or their other products. Browse to the site directly by typing in its address.<\/p>\n<p>But note that most sites use google analytics (or something similar) and are 100% tracking you anyway… and sharing that info to the analytics provider<\/p>\n<p>What is the goal here that you wish to achieve?<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2025-02-20T23:15:01.772Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210/15","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"molan","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/molan"}}]}}</script><script 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</div> </div> <div id='post_1' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971'><span itemprop='name'>Viking1971</span></a> (Viking1971) </span> <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-avoid-going-through-facebook-com-and-the-likes-when-going-to-an-unrelated-site/1177210"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time datetime='2025-02-19T22:16:18Z' class='post-time'> February 19, 2025, 10:16pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-19T22:26:19Z'> <span itemprop='position'>1</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>I installed Firefox on a fresh Server 2019, went to <a href="http://veeam.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">veeam.com</a> and the intermediate stop is <a href="http://facebook.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">facebook.com</a>… How to prevent this? Using Brave? Another browser with built-in VPN?</p> <p>I’ve been seeing it for years, for some reason today I got fed up with it. Maybe it’s the fact that is a brand new machine, with its first browser and first visit and it’s already being sucked by Facebook, I don’t know. But I’m tired of it.</p> <p>Thanks!</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="3" /> <span class='post-likes'>3 Spice ups</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_2' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/molan'><span itemprop='name'>molan</span></a> (molan) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-19T23:53:33Z' class='post-time'> February 19, 2025, 11:53pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-19T23:53:33Z'> <span itemprop='position'>2</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>you are saying that if you use the URL <a href="https://veeam.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://veeam.com</a> you get redirected to <a href="https://facebook.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://facebook.com</a>?</p> <p>That definitely isn’t normal and you have something weird going on you need to solve. My first thought is some kind of DNS poisoning if this is truly a fresh install with nothing on it.</p> <p>if I go to <a href="http://veeam.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">veeam.com</a> I get <a href="http://veeam.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">veeam.com</a> directly without facebook in the middle</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_3' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Rod-IT'><span itemprop='name'>Rod-IT</span></a> (Rod-IT) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T00:22:40Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 12:22am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T00:22:40Z'> <span itemprop='position'>3</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Why are you using a browser on a server at all.</p> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="Viking1971" data-post="1" data-topic="1177210"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/viking1971/48/736090_2.png" class="avatar"> Viking1971:</div> <blockquote> <p>I’ve been seeing it for years</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Any chance of a video clip?</p> <p>If you’re seeing facebook in the firewall/proxy logs, but it doesn’t directly visit this, that’s because they have their links and badges at the bottom of the page, it’s to be expected some content from each of these loads.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_4' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971'><span itemprop='name'>Viking1971</span></a> (Viking1971) </span> <link itemprop="image" href="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af.jpeg"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T00:33:01Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 12:33am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T00:33:01Z'> <span itemprop='position'>4</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="molan" data-post="2" data-topic="1177210" data-full="true"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/molan/48/25062_2.png" class="avatar"> molan:</div> <blockquote> <p>you are saying that if you use the URL <a href="https://veeam.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://veeam.com</a> you get redirected to <a href="https://facebook.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://facebook.com</a>?</p> <p>That definitely isn’t normal and you have something weird going on you need to solve. My first thought is some kind of DNS poisoning if this is truly a fresh install with nothing on it.</p> <p>if I go to <a href="http://veeam.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">veeam.com</a> I get <a href="http://veeam.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">veeam.com</a> directly without facebook in the middle</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>I apologize, I didn’t express myself correctly. I’m referring to the stops that traffic make before hitting the website you actually wanted; that little sign in the lower left corner that reads “google ad services” or in this case “<a href="http://facebook.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">facebook.com</a>” while you wait for the website to load. Sometimes while you wait you can read “waiting in <a href="http://facebook.com" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">facebook.com</a>”, etc ,</p> <p>this:<br> <div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af.jpeg" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/pm3uPck7j638vb6ElzMhGvGxivJ.jpeg?dl=1" title="image" rel="noopener nofollow ugc"><img src="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af_2_690x435.jpeg" alt="image" data-base62-sha1="pm3uPck7j638vb6ElzMhGvGxivJ" width="690" height="435" srcset="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af_2_690x435.jpeg, https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af_2_1035x652.jpeg 1.5x, https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/b/1/b/b1b49fb7e62fb2cb23e76986ee93fa7ced7042af.jpeg 2x" data-dominant-color="F6F5F6"><div class="meta"><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#far-image"></use></svg><span class="filename">image</span><span class="informations">1347×851 217 KB</span><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div></p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_5' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971'><span itemprop='name'>Viking1971</span></a> (Viking1971) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T00:34:51Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 12:34am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T00:34:51Z'> <span itemprop='position'>5</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="Rod-IT" data-post="3" data-topic="1177210" data-full="true"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/rod-it/48/903265_2.png" class="avatar"> Rod-IT:</div> <blockquote> <p>Why are you using a browser on a server at all.</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>What is the alternative?</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_6' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/PatrickFarrell'><span itemprop='name'>PatrickFarrell</span></a> (PatrickFarrell) </span> <link itemprop="image" href="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/a/e/f/aefebbb7d97615d99825a1b3e19f866b4290ea16.jpeg"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T00:41:48Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 12:41am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T00:41:48Z'> <span itemprop='position'>6</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Firefox has an addon called facebook container that helps prevent facebook from tracking you around.</p> <aside class="onebox allowlistedgeneric" data-onebox-src="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/"> <header class="source"> <img src="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/9/9/d/99dd0b197fe3722bb3e68a677ef7d9e34f3c950a.png" class="site-icon" data-dominant-color="DF7263" width="32" height="32"> <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">addons.mozilla.org</a> </header> <article class="onebox-body"> <div class="aspect-image" style="--aspect-ratio:324/500;"><img src="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/a/e/f/aefebbb7d97615d99825a1b3e19f866b4290ea16_2_324x500.jpeg" class="thumbnail" data-dominant-color="3F4472" width="324" height="500"></div> <h3><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook Container – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)</a></h3> <p>Download Facebook Container for Firefox. Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook.</p> </article> <div class="onebox-metadata"> </div> <div style="clear: both"></div> </aside> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="2" /> <span class='post-likes'>2 Spice ups</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_7' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Rod-IT'><span itemprop='name'>Rod-IT</span></a> (Rod-IT) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T02:04:51Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 2:04am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T02:04:51Z'> <span itemprop='position'>7</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="Viking1971" data-post="5" data-topic="1177210"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/viking1971/48/736090_2.png" class="avatar"> Viking1971:</div> <blockquote> <p>What is the alternative?</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>Use the browser on your desktop/laptop.</p> <p>As for your screenshot, you’re clicking sponsored content which Google serve ads. You said you went to <a href="http://Veeam.com">Veeam.com</a> but you shared a google search.</p> <p>Either visit the site directly or scroll down to avoid the advertisement links.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_8' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/matthew-martin'><span itemprop='name'>matthew-martin</span></a> (MartinCCSS) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T04:26:07Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 4:26am </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T04:26:07Z'> <span itemprop='position'>8</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>To track the click before redirecting to the destination site. Used to bill for the ad and other stats.</p> <p>HTML ping attribute can be used by sites instead, but older browsers and ones configured to prevent tracking would often ignore that attribute. Therefore, it’s common for sites to stick with the old method of using a redirect.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_9' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/molan'><span itemprop='name'>molan</span></a> (molan) </span> <link itemprop="image" href="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/e/d/6/ed6b9385ec1d31fc5b325206c1bb4e377fa66314.png"> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T14:11:32Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 2:11pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T14:11:32Z'> <span itemprop='position'>9</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>In your example you are visiting a paid add<br> <div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/e/d/6/ed6b9385ec1d31fc5b325206c1bb4e377fa66314.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/xSjDMdmo5Zdu56L10qyTZ4YBOD2.png?dl=1" title="image" rel="noopener nofollow ugc"><img src="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/e/d/6/ed6b9385ec1d31fc5b325206c1bb4e377fa66314.png" alt="image" data-base62-sha1="xSjDMdmo5Zdu56L10qyTZ4YBOD2" width="472" height="192"><div class="meta"><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#far-image"></use></svg><span class="filename">image</span><span class="informations">472×192 62.4 KB</span><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div></p> <p>that is why it says Sponsored at the top.</p> <p>If you want to go directly to Veeam either type in the URL yourself in the address bar instead of searching for it<br> <img src="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/e/c/9/ec939906286030fbeb77da7a6fba687043ce134e.png" alt="image" data-base62-sha1="xKQUp4gVLmy6lnP4WkYqvLJRZGC" width="532" height="90"><br> or scroll further down the results to get past the sponsored adds placed at the top and find a direct link<br> <div class="lightbox-wrapper"><a class="lightbox" href="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/original/4X/3/6/e/36ea3b258bd14c098c7267fb15f1151250ac9172.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/7PNCvuHlGeC48eR2pK9thLX9P1w.png?dl=1" title="image" rel="noopener nofollow ugc"><img src="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/3/6/e/36ea3b258bd14c098c7267fb15f1151250ac9172_2_645x500.png" alt="image" data-base62-sha1="7PNCvuHlGeC48eR2pK9thLX9P1w" width="645" height="500" srcset="https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/3/6/e/36ea3b258bd14c098c7267fb15f1151250ac9172_2_645x500.png, https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/3/6/e/36ea3b258bd14c098c7267fb15f1151250ac9172_2_967x750.png 1.5x, https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/optimized/4X/3/6/e/36ea3b258bd14c098c7267fb15f1151250ac9172_2_1290x1000.png 2x" data-dominant-color="171920"><div class="meta"><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-far-image svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#far-image"></use></svg><span class="filename">image</span><span class="informations">1958×1516 224 KB</span><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-discourse-expand svg-icon" aria-hidden="true"><use href="#discourse-expand"></use></svg></div></a></div></p> <p>or use a different search engine that isn’t injecting paid adds at the top of its search results</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_10' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/PatrickFarrell'><span itemprop='name'>PatrickFarrell</span></a> (PatrickFarrell) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T14:39:24Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 2:39pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T14:39:24Z'> <span itemprop='position'>10</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Rather than clicking on that link, right click it, copy link location and post the resulting link here. Curious to see what that actually links to.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_11' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971'><span itemprop='name'>Viking1971</span></a> (Viking1971) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T18:50:22Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 6:50pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T18:50:22Z'> <span itemprop='position'>11</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Thanks! I’ll give that a try. I don’t see it for Chrome, but maybe I just need a tracking blocker.</p> <p>Appreciate it.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_12' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971'><span itemprop='name'>Viking1971</span></a> (Viking1971) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T21:40:34Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 9:40pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T21:40:34Z'> <span itemprop='position'>12</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>I don’t see the problem with occasionally using a secure browser to go to a specific site and do what you need there. I don’t “browse the web” from a server.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_13' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Viking1971'><span itemprop='name'>Viking1971</span></a> (Viking1971) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T21:41:57Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 9:41pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T21:41:57Z'> <span itemprop='position'>13</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p><a class="mention" href="/u/rod-it">@Rod-IT</a><br> The screenshot was an example of what kind of message I was referring to, not a screenshot of the exact message. I mentioned Facebook because that’s the one I actually saw in this occasion, but this kind of message that indicates that your traffic is being tracked or whatever the word is, is ubiquitous and you only see it in that lower left corner.</p> <p>I clearly cannot explain myself correctly so I will close or take down this post to avoid further confusion.</p> <p>Thank you</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_14' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Rod-IT'><span itemprop='name'>Rod-IT</span></a> (Rod-IT) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T21:44:01Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 9:44pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T21:44:01Z'> <span itemprop='position'>14</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="Viking1971" data-post="13" data-topic="1177210"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/viking1971/48/736090_2.png" class="avatar"> Viking1971:</div> <blockquote> <p>I clearly cannot explain myself correctly so I will close or take down this post to avoid further confusion.</p> </blockquote> </aside> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="Rod-IT" data-post="3" data-topic="1177210"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/rod-it/48/903265_2.png" class="avatar"> Rod-IT:</div> <blockquote> <p>Any chance of a video clip?</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>You give up too easily.</p> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="Viking1971" data-post="12" data-topic="1177210"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/viking1971/48/736090_2.png" class="avatar"> Viking1971:</div> <blockquote> <p>I don’t see the problem with occasionally using a secure browser to go to a specific site and do what you need there</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>That;s your choice, but I don’t understand why, on a server, unless it’s an RDS server you would need a browser.</p> <p>Your example, descriptive or not is one reason you shouldn’t use a browser on a server.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="1" /> <span class='post-likes'>1 Spice up</span> </div> </div> <div id='post_15' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" rel='nofollow' href='https://community.spiceworks.com/u/molan'><span itemprop='name'>molan</span></a> (molan) </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2025-02-20T23:15:01Z' class='post-time'> February 20, 2025, 11:15pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2025-02-20T23:15:01Z'> <span itemprop='position'>15</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <aside class="quote no-group" data-username="Viking1971" data-post="13" data-topic="1177210"> <div class="title"> <div class="quote-controls"></div> <img alt="" width="24" height="24" src="https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/spiceworks/user_avatar/community.spiceworks.com/viking1971/48/736090_2.png" class="avatar"> Viking1971:</div> <blockquote> <p>kind of message that indicates that your traffic is being tracked o</p> </blockquote> </aside> <p>If you are using a search engine you are being tracked. no way around it.<br> If you don’t want google to track your search history don’t use google search or their other products. 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