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Nighthawk MR60 spying on my Internet usage
I installed a new Nighthawk AX1800 WiFi 6 Mesh System only to find that it is now the top user of DNS in my network and it's looking up the hostname of every IP any of my devices visit on the interne...
Most modern forum software will use a range of automated filtering functions that will look for patterns such as a large number of URLs posted at once or various keywords. Sadly it is effectively unavoidable with public forums what want to allow for public registrations without annoying screening processes such as requiring the first few posts to be moderator approved.
I have moderated on a different forum in the past and it wasn’t uncommon to see the system block over 100 bot accounts within a single day, and that is with a captcha system. Sadly many mass spamming operations do effectively captcha farming, or sidejacking style malware where someone’s normal activity provides the data that google recaptcha needs.
Overall until something better comes out many forums will have a range of filters and other automations in place to prevent spam, even though that can have false positives (depending on the content).
In focusing more of the core issue, your best bet may be the LAN to LAN setup especially if Netgear armor is enabled and you don't want its cloud related network activity taking place.
The reply that disappeared was mostly just hostnames not URL's.
But anyway, I am keen on trying the LAN LAN mode, but the router is at my elderly parent's house 40 miles away, so I probably won't be able to get down there before Wednesday.
Razor512 To my knowledge, I never enabled Netgear Armor.
How would I check and how would I disable it?
To me, Access Point mode should be "brick-stupid do nothing nothing but bridge the WiFi to my actual router."
That one button to turn on AP mode should disable all this other gratuitous nonsense. :-/