List of well-known web sites that port scan their visitors
It turns out websites like Citibank and Chick-Fil-A port scan your computer when you visit their website, so they can build a profile. Do you run TeamViewer or VNC and that sort of thing. Probably not trying to read your file sharing, yet. But the money quote is at the end:
Yet another reason to not use Chrome. I know it's like beating a dead horse at this point, but still.
It turns out websites like Citibank and Chick-Fil-A port scan your computer when you visit their website, so they can build a profile. Do you run TeamViewer or VNC and that sort of thing. Probably not trying to read your file sharing, yet. But the money quote is at the end:
Quote:If you find these port scans to be intrusive and a privacy risk, you can utilize the uBlock Origin adblocker in Firefox to block them.
In our tests, uBlock is unable to block the port scans in the new Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome as the extension does not have adequate permissions to uncloak the DNS CNAME records.
Yet another reason to not use Chrome. I know it's like beating a dead horse at this point, but still.
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