Something I have noticed in my firewall logs is that every time I go to a base forum (MPSIMS, IMHO, etc), there is an attempt to connect to Youtube.
At first I thought it might be on of the other ~10 tabs I have open at any given time, but have lately confirmed that the SDMB is doing it by itself. It’s very replicable, and there’s a request to connect to Youtube every time I open a base forum.
I block it as a routine matter on the general principle of “don’t connect to third party sites that have no real connection to the site you’re browsing,” but thought I’d ask here why we do that, so that if it serves some legitimate purpose I can make an exception.