New router / NoScript

[Blaaaaaaaah]

So we recently got a new router. I have NoScript installed for firefox and I'm getting ABE messages popping up when I try to access the youtube homepage (however I can still access youtube pages via direct video links).

After doing some research I found this forum that talks about the problem I'm having, but for a different site:

http://forums.informaction.com/viewt...hp?f=23&t=3134

ABE is telling you that the Wikipedia page (in this case) is spawning a request to your router.
The only reason I can think of is that your router collects information about the sites you visit, I suppose to rate them and/or block the blacklisted ones.
If you're OK with this behavior, you can prepend the following line in the SYSTEM ruleset:

Wow, talk about unnecessarily intrusive. You might consider disabling that function unless you absolutely want it, because there might more than just YOU accessing that traffic data, anyone who knows you have that router or can sniff it and knows the API for the function can request, collect and access that data too, assuming its not already being shared with the manufacturer behind your back or as part of some fine print or even some other entity. Just saying. ABE may have exposed a vulnerability that were not aware of or a feature that you didn't realize was enabled.

Could someone kindly please explain what that means in layman's terms?

I don't exactly understand the bolded bid - what function are they talking about?

tytytyty =^.^=

[Vasu]

He's talking about the function that the router performs in getting information about the sites you visit. I'm sorry I can't help you with the rest of it, but he's saying that this sort of behaviour may basically lead to an invasion of privacy. I don't know the first thing about configuring routers, but he's recommending that you shut down that particular function.

[Blaaaaaaaah]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh OK thanks!

Edit: ahhhhh I fixed it. All I needed to do was to clear the cache :x