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Just now, EliraFriesnan said:

Never happened to me. Could be a redirect malware lurking on your PC? The one that edits HOSTS, for example.

Agreed.  I've never seen this happen either.  But even so, the responsible thing to do is for the form owner to investigate.

I wish that the video report was better resolution, I can't see anything.

But I do see an EXTENSION in the upper right corner that I do not recognize.

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At least 3 people have the issue, including myself. It only happens on Iron (on win 7 but not Win 10), not Firefox or Chrome for me. I don't know what triggers it, I don't know how to intercept that.

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Not to state an obvious, but it looks like a DNS issue to me.  Like the browser is using it's "own" DNS and not the OS's.

Other than DNS settings specific to Iron, I wouldn't know how to intercept either.

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9 minutes ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Not to state an obvious, but it looks like a DNS issue to me.  Like the browser is using it's "own" DNS and not the OS's.

Other than DNS settings specific to Iron, I wouldn't know how to intercept either.

discord preview is fetched by discord server itself, so the problem could be wider than we think.

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So it only happens to people with Discord?  (I don't have Discord.)

I did try to replicate in Supermium on XP and in Iron on XP.  Could not replicate.

I was hoping to be helpful, but looks like nothing I can do to even try to force this redirect.

I'll sit back and wait for the experts to have time to investigate.  I may install a Win7 VM this afternoon (for nothing more than curiosity and kind of "wanting" to replicate).

Posted
1 hour ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

I have an added curiosity though - he's running Supermium, is this happening ONLY in Supermium?

Yes, it was me. I discovered the problem. Now I have to rely on R3DFOX.

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3 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

So it only happens to people with Discord?  (I don't have Discord.)

Happens with Iron 109 on Win7, not Chrome 109 on Win7. Doesn't happen with Iron 135 on Win 10.

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