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qBittorrent trying to access Google?
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:52 pm
by jcunews
I've just installed qBittorrent, but it tries to access Google?
https://i.imgur.com/OeRNaXm.png
After I blocked the network request, my firewall application created this rule.
https://i.imgur.com/gAEV1pV.png
Why does qBittorrent needs such request? And how to stop it from doing that.
Re: qBittorrent trying to access Google?
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 7:29 pm
by mike20021969
[quote="jcunews"]
I've just installed qBittorrent, but it tries to access Google? ... Why does qBittorrent needs such request?[/quote]
Maybe Google is the search engine that's used if looking for torrents to download...?
Re: qBittorrent trying to access Google?
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 10:00 pm
by sledgehammer_999
It is for the tracker favicons.
If it fails to download a favicon using the tracker domain/ip, it fallbacks to using a google service for that which sometimes has better success.
The url for google is:
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https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=
and the tracker domain/ip is appended to that in order to get a reply
Re: qBittorrent trying to access Google?
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 9:07 am
by jcunews
So, disabling the "Download tracker's favicon" setting should (indirectly) disable that request, correct?
I don't need any favicon, anyway.
