topic Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN in Community Site Feedback

Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

Townman — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:48:13 GMT

@James_B

I encountered this new phenomenon this evening ...

Would you know what changes have been made to the service to bring this about please?

It is more than a tad disconcerting!

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

jab1 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:53:35 GMT

It is more than a tad disconcerting!

You can say that again!!

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:38:02 GMT

What web browser are you using? Version number not required.

(Other web browsers may not have experienced this phenominon)

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

Marksfish — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:00:50 GMT

I had that over the weekend on Chrome. Denied access of course.

Mark

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

jab1 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:07:52 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

What web browser are you using? Version number not required.

(Other web browsers may not have experienced this phenominon)

I somehow doubt this is browser related, although I haven't experienced it (yet).

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

James_B — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:25:38 GMT

Hi @Townman,

We haven't made any changes at our end and I haven't encountered it myself.

I'll raise a ticket with Khoros this morning so they can take a look.

Thanks

James

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

MisterW — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:33:41 GMT

I haven't seen the issue, although I'm not currently on a PN connection and I'm using Firefox

edit: seems like it might be Chrome https://developer.chrome.com/blog/local-network-access

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

Townman — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:34:49 GMT

Now I have looked, the Beta designation disconcerts me a little...

Either rouge activity from the community service or a false positive from beta programmes software.

I have saw it only twice at the time I reported it.

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

jab1 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:39:15 GMT

Ah, wonder if it is MS Edge related then - I certainly don't experience it on Firefox.

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:29:44 GMT

Given that Firefox has configurable options for access to local stuff via about:preferences#privacy I was a little confuzzled when you stated that it may not be a browser problem. Does Edge have that granular control?

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

jab1 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:38:19 GMT

@Anonymous IF that was aimed at me, although I have configured FF to my liking, I have only done so away from about:config - seen no need to delve any deeper.

As to Edge, I have no idea, having never used it.

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

MisterW — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:07:30 GMT

Ah, wonder if it is MS Edge related then

To quote MS 'The new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is built on the same underlying technology as Google Chrome, '

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:15:53 GMT

I've (in extremis) used Edge when tryng to understand little foibles in what webservers are trying to do. Sometimes using both (when applicable) can disclose unfortunate things before calling customer support. "Yes, I've already done that. It didn't resolve the problem." Which cuts through the 1st line support scripts.

Opinions...

Edge is not as configurable (controllable) as FF (IMO). Or if it is as configurable, it hides a lot of things.

Web forums don't "thread" replies as well as older technologies? And replies can become a bit unstranded. And thus your "if"?

I'm wondering what Firefox have been working on in their latest update. I'm not enamoured with some of the previous "feature creep". Some of which cannot be configured out/disabled. How web browsers interpret isn't standardised.

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

Marksfish — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:57:30 GMT

Everyone is concentrating on Edge, but I did mention that I had seen it in Chrome. Shame I didn't screenshot it. It isn't/ wasn't single browser related.

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

jab1 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:44:35 GMT

Edge is based on Chromium..

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

pjmarsh — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:55:57 GMT

I've just had the same for the first time on Chrome Version 142.0.7444.162 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

Townman — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:42:04 GMT

@James_B wrote:

I'll raise a ticket with Khoros this morning so they can take a look.

@James_B

Has there been an update please?

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:22:51 GMT

I've yet to see similar (or the same) using Firefox on Windoze.

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

jab1 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:45:08 GMT

That is because it is a Chrome issue, @Anonymous

Re: Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

TheRoadCrew — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:08:15 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I've yet to see similar (or the same) using Firefox on Windoze.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/control-personal-device-local-network-permissions-firefox

Apparently only currently enabled by default on Firefox Nightly builds