Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
I have recently installed this extension on FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/port-authorit... and yesterday I visited this website: https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ and I got a notification that the website tried to do a port-scan of my private network.Is this a common thing? I have just recently installed the extension, so I am not sure if there are a lot of other websites who do it.Since looking into it, I noticed that uBlock Origin already has the default list "Block Outsider ...
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