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Re:Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website by smcdiggles on Monday April 08, 2024 @08:52AM (#39969187)
So, I just googled notepad++, then scrolled down to just the link. I didn't click it. However, I enable regional blocking for my home router which blocks traffic for certain countries and I just got a notification that it blocked traffic from notepad.plus. Without even clicking on it.. I am guessing this is Google's fault with fetching some sort of data while loading the search page, but thought it odd.
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Re:Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website by avianlyric on Monday April 08, 2024 @09:02AM (#39969280)
More likely your browser performing a pre-fetch in anticipation of you clicking.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Prefetch

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Re:Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website by SushiHippie on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @06:10PM (#39984849)
FYI This can be disabled:

Chrome: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33398651

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...

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Re:Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website by gordonfish on Monday April 08, 2024 @09:09AM (#39969347)
It could make sense if it's checking for robots.txt or so, though I'm not sure if it does that each time search results and I would have thought that that would be conducted from the server side rather than client side.

Are you sure you don't have some browser extension that does some checks/inspection/etc of links?

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