BM local network connect request?

Ric said:
Hmm, no that seems strange. Certainly haven’t seen that before. Is it happening persistently?

Am in hospital at the moment after an operation, do a bit limited in what I can do for now but will see what I can find out! Thanks for flagging.
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Ahh, didn't know about the hospital stay, apologies for tagging you in that case :(

Just happened this morning for the first time. I did have a VPN active at that time for other reasons so don't know if that would trigger anything with the recent issues?
 
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Ric said:
Hmm, no that seems strange. Certainly haven’t seen that before. Is it happening persistently?

Am in hospital at the moment after an operation, do a bit limited in what I can do for now but will see what I can find out! Thanks for flagging.
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Whatever it is get well soon, these mods need keeping in check.

But seriously get well soon.
 
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Ric said:
Hmm, no that seems strange. Certainly haven’t seen that before. Is it happening persistently?

Am in hospital at the moment after an operation, do a bit limited in what I can do for now but will see what I can find out! Thanks for flagging.
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Hope everything is ok Ric. Looking forward to seeing you with your new head of hair soon.
 
Centurions said:
This is a new one to me @Ric , is this expected behaviour?

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It's a client side prompt, meaning that something on your machine has asked to move from public network space to private network space.

Google have made changes to their Local Network Access code in their Chrome build that came out yesterday. Nerds can see more here.

As usual with Google, they didn't bother to tell end-users that this is a new prompt before throwing it in their faces so now everyone is confused by what's going on.

As the prompt is client side, the only two possible causes could be a weird ad as adverts are served to you client side (unlikely) or an extension you have that is trying to move from public to private space (likely). This could be any number of things but your VPN seems a hot candidate.

TL;DR - It's probably your VPN and as it happened to trigger on this site, Chrome doesn't know what's going on and puts our URL in there.
 
Damocles said:
It's a client side prompt, meaning that something on your machine has asked to move from public network space to private network space.

Google have made changes to their Local Network Access code in their Chrome build that came out yesterday. Nerds can see more here.

As usual with Google, they didn't bother to tell end-users that this is a new prompt before throwing it in their faces so now everyone is confused by what's going on.

As the prompt is client side, the only two possible causes could be a weird ad as adverts are served to you client side (unlikely) or an extension you have that is trying to move from public to private space (likely). This could be any number of things but your VPN seems a hot candidate.

TL;DR - It's probably your VPN and as it happened to trigger on this site, Chrome doesn't know what's going on and puts our URL in there.
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Cheers, I'm Ad free on BM so I'll go with the VPN/Chrome combo as the culprit (Surf Shark for what's worth) but I only run it occasionally so no biggie.
 
Centurions said:
Cheers, I'm Ad free on BM so I'll go with the VPN/Chrome combo as the culprit (Surf Shark for what's worth) but I only run it occasionally so no biggie.
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Possibly VPN but not definitely. The request is actually fairly benign for most extensions and the extension devs just haven't had chance to put out a hotfix. (Basically, Chrome extensions could always do this without you knowing but now they've put in a permissions guard)

With that said, you should DENY any permission request that you're not sure what it's doing. There's a small chance that an extension you use could be doing some polling on your local network to find devices to look for to hack. Though you'd have to download some proper dodgy extensions for that to be the case, it's probably just the VPN.
 
Started getting this message is it genuine ?
Dinosaur
Wont let me post picture but it's asking to accept bluemoon to use personal data ?
 
dadnlad said:
Started getting this message is it genuine ?
Dinosaur
Wont let me post picture but it's asking to accept bluemoon to use personal data ?
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I've literally just got the same, it's a consent pop up for tailored Ads etc. I refreshed the page to get rid but it's "probably" Chrome being an ass again.

This is without the VPN and with just Lastpass and the Surfshark extension. Surfshark is used for Ad blocker only and BM is whitelisted (I'm Ad free into the bargain).

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Centurions said:
I've literally just got the same, it's a consent pop up for tailored Ads etc. I refreshed the page to get rid but it's "probably" Chrome being an ass again.

This is without the VPN and with just Lastpass and the Surfshark extension. Surfshark is used for Ad blocker only and BM is whitelisted (I'm Ad free into the bargain).

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@Ric this is generated by an ad it seems
 
fulabeer said:
Rather than start a new thread Ric, is there a way to say no to cookies?
I get a pop up every now and again asking to confirm my site cookie preferences. Most sites do this from time to time, so no big deal.
Yesterday, i was asked again to set my cookie preferences. There was an "Accept All" option, but no "Reject All" option.
So i clicked through to options, and there was a few toggles to reject them. So no problem right?
It was when i clicked through to vendor options. Although it looked like there was no accept toggles on, there was "hundreds" of the Vendors still with "Legitimate Use" agreement still switched on.
It took me nearly 30 mins and a lot of patience to switch everyone off.

I only did this yesterday to give me time to come on here and ask why there is no "Reject all" option?
Obviously, i wouldn't do this again.
I'm hoping this is just a glitch. I've already left many sites that use this cookie provider with no "Reject All" option.
I'm not paranoid about cookies. I have no problem with a site providers essential cookies. Advertising/tracking cookies can do one though.
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Damocles said:
@Ric this is generated by an ad it seems
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Presuming it's the pop-up below you're talking about @fulabeer then Damocles seems to believe it's caused by an Ad. I reset Chrome yesterday and have gotten the same thing this morning (just on the technical thread oddly), 3 times on the trot when switching threads.

I refresh the page through F5 rather than click on anything. I actually pay for the Ad free version of BM so that's a bit annoying :(

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Ric said:
Hmm, no that seems strange. Certainly haven’t seen that before. Is it happening persistently?

Am in hospital at the moment after an operation, do a bit limited in what I can do for now but will see what I can find out! Thanks for flagging.
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Has the sex change gone wrong:)
 
Centurions said:
I refresh the page through F5 rather than click on anything. I actually pay for the Ad free version of BM so that's a bit annoying :(
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Can only apologise about this. Not quite sure how it’s happening if you’re ad free, but will have a proper look into it this morning.
 
Ric said:
Can only apologise about this. Not quite sure how it’s happening if you’re ad free, but will have a proper look into it this morning.
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Really not a big issue Ric although it seems more prevalent this morning since I reset Chrome. I'm not clicking on it regardless, F5 does the job for now. When I first went on the site after the reset I did accept cookies as you have to do that before logging in, but that was the 'normal' consent form.
 
Centurions said:
Really not a big issue Ric although it seems more prevalent this morning since I reset Chrome. I'm not clicking on it regardless, F5 does the job for now. When I first went on the site after the reset I did accept cookies as you have to do that before logging in, but that was the 'normal' consent form.
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The ad company think it should be resolved now - please could you let me know if you still experience problems?
 
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