The easiest solution right now is for me to access it through a browser that's based on Firefox.
It appears that the perpetrators are primarily targeting browsers based on Chrome.

3 hours ago, MilkChan said:

The easiest solution right now is for me to access it through a browser that's based on Firefox.
It appears that the perpetrators are primarily targeting browsers based on Chrome.

Interesting.

Could the affected tell us what they have these settings at?

I have all three DISABLED (always have, will never use, DO NOT TRUST THEM).

It would be interesting to see if these "protections" are what is CAUSING this to those affected.

But...  I don't even think these were present in Iron v109 (the oldest browser being affected, if I recall).

 

On 4/15/2026 at 4:20 PM, user57 said:

so they definatly can redirect you

It's called MITM. Those punks have no access to my ISP. They would've been caught by the Swiss Polizei immediately.

13 hours ago, EliraFriesnan said:

Kind of what I SUSPECTED.

Can you see if the issue of redirecting (or whatever you prefer to call it) still exists if you do NOT use secure DNS?

Don't forget to FLUSH YOUR DNS CACHE also.

Edited April 19Apr 19 by NotHereToPlayGames

On 4/18/2026 at 7:33 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Interesting.

Could the affected tell us what they have these settings at?

I have all three DISABLED (always have, will never use, DO NOT TRUST THEM).

It would be interesting to see if these "protections" are what is CAUSING this to those affected.

But...  I don't even think these were present in Iron v109 (the oldest browser being affected, if I recall).

 

 

It seems to be having an effect, but I'll have to wait and see.

You want to suggest google DNS 8888 is compromised by the punks?

2 hours ago, EliraFriesnan said:

You want to suggest google DNS 8888 is compromised by the punks?

Yeah.  Until proven otherwise.

It's not that difficult for you to change your DNS, disable "secure DNS", FLUSH YOUR DNS CACHE, and tell us if you are still redirected (or whatever you prefer to call it).

Heck, it's probably just a simple matter of FLUSHING YOUR DNS CACHE (but I would have assumed this to be "Step One" for anyone affected).

14 hours ago, EliraFriesnan said:

You want to suggest google DNS 8888 is compromised by the punks?

They have been hacked before, they will be hacked again.  Granted, first article I found is from a year ago, with Google ADMITTING that their DNS was hijacked.

All it takes is a temporary hijack and YOUR CONFIG'S DNS CACHE to keep the "redirect" active forever (or until that cache is flushed) on YOUR CONFIG.

 

https://umatechnology.org/googles-public-dns-servers-hijacked-traffic-redirected-for-more-than-22-minutes/

 

Edited April 20Apr 20 by NotHereToPlayGames

On 4/18/2026 at 3:33 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Interesting.

Could the affected tell us what they have these settings at?

I have all three DISABLED (always have, will never use, DO NOT TRUST THEM).

It would be interesting to see if these "protections" are what is CAUSING this to those affected.

But...  I don't even think these were present in Iron v109 (the oldest browser being affected, if I recall).

 

I love that implication on Enhanced protection how it admits will send browsing data to google and feed it to algorithm based machine learning. I do not like the "AI" buzzword. Too overused. IT IS MACHINE LEARNING. Bit off topic but I remember early 90s Korg M1 music workstation having "AI" synth advertised on it and in early 2000s Asus had their "AI" series motherboards which meant some overclocking/fan control thingy. It seems buzzword is back and fed everyone. I agree that machine learning has gotten much better in terms of doing things than it used to be and I have ran tests with it using local models with very impressive results, but I do not agree on hype and slapping "AI" sticker everywhere for the THIRD TIME IN 30 years.

Edited April 20Apr 20 by Nokiamies

The user should think of it this way, by using a Google DNS server, you DOUBLE your "footprint of trackability".

Your ISP *always* can track you.  *ALWAYS*  Regardless of whether you use their DNS or not.

By using Google's DNS instead of your ISP's DNS, you voluntarily provide Google with "records" they would not have otherwise had.

But in this day and age, you really cannot prevent those "records" anyway.

But I am of the view that if I can configure my machine to hand out 100 "records" per day compared to other configurations handing out 9,999,999 "records" per day, then I've done the best I can.

17 hours ago, Nokiamies said:

Too overused.

Too overcursed.

@NotHereToPlayGames, I used cloudfare. Makes no difference.

18 hours ago, Nokiamies said:

"AI"

WOW! AI now even suggests to avoid MSFN! Maybe the admins need to write a protest letter to Duck?

 

 

4 hours ago, EliraFriesnan said:

WOW! AI now even suggests to avoid MSFN! Maybe the admins need to write a protest letter to Duck?

 

Well, YES, the site *IS* compromised, PLAIN AND SIMPLE !!!  WE ALL TAKE A RISK JUST BY VISITING !!!

Personally, for you folks that have been affected, I *often* ask myself, "Wow!  Why are they even still here!  I would not continue to visit if that sh#t was happening to me!"

On 4/12/2026 at 1:14 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Conspiracy Theories

@Karla Sleutel, a very frequent poster, active member, one of the last ones, disappeared the same day a top admin visited her acc.

And now - silence!

It seems she wrote something here that got deleted. What did I miss?