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Standard User Ripley
(experienced) Tue 14-Jun-22 10:28:23
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Browsers Opening Different Pages


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I have a strange issue with my windows PC's running the MS Edge browser.

When clicking a url from google search results maybe half of the time a different page is opened rather than the page im expecting. For example to get here I googled thinkbroadband, clicked the link in the results and the page that opened was https://switcheroo.co.uk/broadband/deals/. When you click the link in google for a second time it opens the correct page.

This is happening on 3 computers, 2 are windows machines and 1 is a windows virtual machine running on a mac.

Any thoughts on this?

I tried virus scanning with various different software but nothing is found.

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Standard User ian72
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Tue 14-Jun-22 15:21:45
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Sounds like it might be an add-in on the browser. I would check and disable any add-ins and see if that fixes it.
Standard User Ripley
(experienced) Wed 15-Jun-22 11:21:01
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Thanks for the suggest Ian, I have removed all add on's and it still seems to be doing it.

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Standard User Moto
(fountain of knowledge) Sun 19-Jun-22 08:43:39
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I stopped using google as a search engine years ago because of the targeted ads.
https://duckduckgo.com/ is my preferred search engine.

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Standard User tommy45
(knowledge is power) Sun 19-Jun-22 16:40:25
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I get a cloudflare Error 521
Web server is down
Standard User amiga_dude
(member) Sun 19-Jun-22 18:01:25
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Is happing if you use Firefox?

Have set an Proxy server in Windows?

(Firefox dosn't use Windows setting for Proxy server)
Standard User jchamier
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sun 19-Jun-22 18:23:02
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In reply to a post by tommy45:
I get a cloudflare Error 521
Web server is down

I use https://start.duckduckgo.com which stops it suggesting its add on!

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Standard User gary333
(experienced) Sun 19-Jun-22 21:23:40
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In reply to a post by jchamier:
In reply to a post by tommy45:
I get a cloudflare Error 521
Web server is down

I use https://start.duckduckgo.com which stops it suggesting its add on!


Not on an iPhone. It’s still there at the top.
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