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Old Jun 22, 2011 | 07:03 AM
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Your router might have some special features, it's hard to know. What is Chromedome home?
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Old Jun 28, 2011 | 05:55 PM
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Who's your ISP? What is your router using for DNS?
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Old Jun 29, 2011 | 05:53 AM
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Viglink is an online marketing company; it is used by websites and blogs to monetize traffic. Either S2ki is using it, another website is using it, you have an account with Viglink, or its built into your computer? Maybe you have a hidden window, spyware, malware, etc... Maybe your ISP uses it to skim your browsing habits.
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Old Jun 29, 2011 | 07:28 AM
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Viglink converts simple links like: ebay.com/blah/blah posted to s2ki into ebay affiliated links (with an affiliate code added to the url) so if you buy something from a site that pays a commission via a link posted on s2ki then s2ki earns a commission offered by the site. The amount varies but it's usually small. eBay, amazon and the like offer affiliate programs, viglink is used to manage them. They are an agent between us and thousands of available affiliate programs without us having to manage them all ourselves. They get a cut of the commission s2ki earns when one is paid by making the process as simple as adding a javascript to our pages.

It has nothing to do with watching you pee.

It has everything to do with the IP address where that script is loaded from being diverted to somewhere else which requires http authentication to access. The REAL api.viglink.com does not require http authentication. The clue is the bit that says "The server api.viglink.com at Chromedome home requires..."

I'd like to know WTF Chromedome home is. Find out and the riddle is solved.

RedCelica may be closer to the answer by suggesting that whatever DNS server FluKy15 is using is diddling with his stuff. Change DNS to 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4 and DO NOT use the automatic DNS servers offered by your ISP. The number of reasons are too many to list.
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Old Jun 29, 2011 | 08:33 AM
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You can set the DNS server addresses in your router config and then set all of your computers/devices to use the servers provided by the router by providing the routers IP address as the DNS server address, ie by proxy.

The other option, which I use AS WELL, is to hard config the DNS servers addresses into each computer you have. This is really only necessary if you have a notebook computer, a desktop isn't going to change networks, but I do it anyway. If you don't set this in your notebook config then you will get whatever DNS server whatever wifi hotspot you connect to offers.

That's just me. I prefer the Internet uncut and unobstructed. Google's public DNS servers at 8.8.8.8 and at 8.8.4.4 provide that. Your ISP's DNS servers do not.

If you type http://gjgkdjfm.com into your web browser you should get an error page (depends on browser). If you get a search page or some assistance in finding "gjgkdjfm" or something else then you are using something I would not personally use.

On Safari I get: Safari can’t open the page “http://gjgkdjfm.com/” because Safari can’t find the server “gjgkdjfm.com”.
On FireFox I get: Firefox can't find the server at www.gjgkdjfm.com.
On Chrome I get: Oops! Google Chrome could not find gjgkdjfm.com.
On IE I get: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.

Those are all the correct answer. If you get something else, all bets are off.
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