Metrext.com

[Fatmice]

So this forum is now being filtered through http://www.metrext.com? I don't like it and I am blocking all such scripts. Let's not fall down the rabbit hole of analyzing your users, where they come from and what not.

Edit: Gah ssilk, I don't want to be accused of spamming for the url.

So I edited also the title -- ssilk

Edit2: The culprit is Tornado addon for Firefox, disable the advertisement.

[DaveMcW]

Please provide some evidence. Right now it looks like you are spamming for that site.

[prg]

Yeah, where are you seeing this? It doesn't show up anywhere in RequestPolicy/Ghostery/NoScript for me.

[Fatmice]

Evidence enough for you?

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And I would eat crows before I spam for this sort of thing, and btw, I even spell the thing wrong...some sort of spammer I am.

[prg]

Uh...

[Fatmice]

Uh is right, I don't know why you don't see it.

[DaveMcW]

Yeah I don't have it either. Can you find where it is being called in the source code?

[reddutton]

fdrom the look of the site you linked it could be comming from the goggle doc you have open

[Boogieman14]

Going by the product's description on the main page, I suspect it's something one of your own extensions/addons tries to do, not something this site is adding.

[Klonan]

I suggest your check your own local system and extension settings before accusing the forum of doing something like this.

[Fatmice]

What? How does that have any bearing? There is indeed a tab for google sheet but that tab is inactive when I launched that Firefox session. That tab is not actually loaded until I click on it.

I don't know where in the html code that url is being called. I would have to dig though the html later as I'm not at my computer currently. Besides, why would Google go through a third party to analyze traffic patterns when Google has its own analytic url?

[Fatmice]

I suggest your check your own local system and extension settings before accusing the forum of doing something like this.

Going by the product's description on the main page, I suspect it's something one of your own extensions/addons tries to do, not something this site is adding.

That is the thing. I have few extensions other than Noscript and this is something I only noticed yesterday. I check this forum daily and I have never seen Noscript complaining until yesterday, which is what threw me off.

[Klonan]

I have never seen Noscript complaining until yesterday, which is what threw me off.

Run a virus/malware scan

[Fatmice]

For what? I don't browse anything other than Factorio related things on that computer. If it was a virus, it would be present on every page. Only the Factorio forum has it, not even the main website has it.

[daniel34]

Metrext is an analytic tool for extensions that shows the author of the extension how widely it is used and some other statistics.
I'm guessing you have an extension/addon installed that tracks these stats through metrext.

Could you post a screenshot of your installed addons?

[orzelek]

Nothing like this is visible in different browser.
Definitely an addon of sorts.
It might matter that I don't have noscript also - I'm using Ghostery instead.

[Fatmice]

I will investigate further this issue. I have in addition to Noscript, ABP, Tornado, Fireftp, and session manager. The only suspect is Tornado as the others I have used for years without issue.

[Fatmice]

It seems the culprit is Tornado. The problem is fixed.