Can someone please tell me why those keep showing up on the browser when I click onto my D&DBeyond's campaign's player's character sheet every single time?
I don't use neither of those and somehow in order to manage the sheet, the link connects to them? What is this new Cyber Sorcery Class doing in WotC? What is D&DBeyond cooking?
I am not Binging Tik Tok on my old Instagram browser!
If you too are seeing those, please feel free to laugh. I am afraid the new Artificer subclass is going to be Cyber Ninja!
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I wonder if I will be seeing "????.amazon" one day, but I do prefer seeing "Handshake to Unicef" instead. Just suggesting.
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What browser are you using? Where are you seeing these popups? Do you have any extensions installed? Because this sounds like you have some kind of extension (or possibly malware) in your browser—I've never seen any such popup
A handshake is basically your browser establishing a connection to those servers to get updates and notifications. This is common in browsers that have in-built widgets, side-panels, etc for common stuff. For example, my main browser is Opera GX and has features to link in my Twitter, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Twitch and Discord accounts so I get notifications and messages in my sidepanel rather than having to use a separate app or keep a tab open. I can make a twitter update, reply to a FB or Whatsapp message, check discord notifications and see if any of my followed streamers are live on Twitch all without having to open anything else or navigate from the page I'm on.
Each time I open my browser it will send a handshake request to each service to establish and maintain a connection to these.
Even if your browser doesn't have such features built in there's extensions for all major browsers available that add such. You may want to check those.
It's possible for malware to be a cause but extremely unlikely. Handshake requests are very normal.
All browsers do some form of handshake - you know when you make a private/secure connection to a website - as noted by a padlock icon, etc? Yeah, thats a handshake. Any form of encrypted connection to any site is a handshake request.
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And to remind people saying their browsers aren't doing such things: they are. You may not be getting notifications but they are. All browsers do some form of handshake - you know when you make a private/secure connection to a website - as noted by a padlock icon, etc? Yeah, thats a handshake. Any form of encrypted connection to any site is a handshake request. So lets not raise alarms about malware over a basic feature of all browsers, especially one that actually helps protect you from such things.
Point of correction, no one has said their "browsers aren't doing such things". What was said is that no one has seen any popups or messages saying such things:
"I've never seen any such popup"
"I’ve never seen that either"
"and not getting any of these"
And malware was only mentioned as a possibility, not a certainty or even a strong contender. For example, they may have an extension that lets them monitor these requests. Or they could have malware that is interfering with the requests and is pushing them out as dialogues rather than behind-the-scenes messages.
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A few ADBlockers have lists/settings to disable those if they are Widgets built into a Browser. I just don't know which they are for each Browser.
If you can't turn them off with your settings, then that might be an option?
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So...either everybody has poor peripheral vision or I just have super good one noticing all those little loading messages popping in the tiny little corners on every single website I have been loading. I thought everybody would be seeing those since those tiny little messages keep popping up every time you load a page, they come up like a fracture of a second, you see it or you miss it, but they surely pop up on every browser I have used. Unless you are on smartphone or smart devices.
I am trying to manage a character sheet, it has nothing to do with Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook, X or Bing.
A handshake is basically your browser establishing a connection to those servers to get updates and notifications. This is common in browsers that have in-built widgets, side-panels, etc for common stuff. For example, my main browser is Opera GX and has features to link in my Twitter, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Twitch and Discord accounts so I get notifications and messages in my sidepanel rather than having to use a separate app or keep a tab open. I can make a twitter update, reply to a FB or Whatsapp message, check discord notifications and see if any of my followed streamers are live on Twitch all without having to open anything else or navigate from the page I'm on.
Each time I open my browser it will send a handshake request to each service to establish and maintain a connection to these.
Even if your browser doesn't have such features built in there's extensions for all major browsers available that add such. You may want to check those.
It's possible for malware to be a cause but extremely unlikely. Handshake requests are very normal.
All browsers do some form of handshake - you know when you make a private/secure connection to a website - as noted by a padlock icon, etc? Yeah, thats a handshake. Any form of encrypted connection to any site is a handshake request.
Ah! That explains something. I know, but as said, I am doing my business, not with Bing, not with Tik Tok, not with Facebook, what the heck are they doing in the character sheet? What business do they have with a character sheet on D&D Beyond? Thank you for reassuring my worries. Now I need to know why my browser has to establish a secure link to those weird companies who have no business with my campaign nor my player's character sheet at all.
And to remind people saying their browsers aren't doing such things: they are. You may not be getting notifications but they are. All browsers do some form of handshake - you know when you make a private/secure connection to a website - as noted by a padlock icon, etc? Yeah, thats a handshake. Any form of encrypted connection to any site is a handshake request. So lets not raise alarms about malware over a basic feature of all browsers, especially one that actually helps protect you from such things.
Point of correction, no one has said their "browsers aren't doing such things". What was said is that no one has seen any popups or messages saying such things:
"I've never seen any such popup"
"I’ve never seen that either"
"and not getting any of these"
And malware was only mentioned as a possibility, not a certainty or even a strong contender. For example, they may have an extension that lets them monitor these requests. Or they could have malware that is interfering with the requests and is pushing them out as dialogues rather than behind-the-scenes messages.
It's always wise to be correct before you decide to correct
Not those ad-like pop-ups, those tiny little system bubbles keeping tabs on what your browser is processing. Man, idk how people are not seeing those, it's 2025; those little bubble things were prehistoric. I have used one of those old Stranger Things modem-dial computers (but not on MS-DOS) before and even they have those little bubbles informing what the browse is currently connecting to and exchanging data with. I am not seeing why a character sheet on D&D Beyond would have any businesses connecting to Tik Tok, McDonalds, KFC, London Museum or whatever sites that aren't supposed to be related to a character sheet. If Lewis Hamilton is playing in my campaign and the page said it is connecting to f1.com, that I would understand, perhaps he saved his sheet on f1.com. It doesn't make sense when I get connected to those weirdo sites when I am only managing a player's character sheet of zero significance to those companies. How does it require my browser to establish a link to those companies? It isn't logical, it doesn't make any sense, which is why I seek to know the answer. Thank you for the input. I know what you meant by malware pop-ups.
I know there are guys here who can solve macros like an Oppenheimer doing a Manhattan Project. So are there any geniuses who can explain those weird connections being established to unrelated companies? Unless McDonalds is sponsoring me, I will gladly build them some McDonalds in my homebrew world. Till then, why would loading the character sheet establish a secure link to weird companies that are none of our businesses in the campaign? That is my question.
Hopefully those new UA Cyber Ninja class playtesters can come help answer this question, we surely need help in understand these cyber voodoos.
(The message does not contain any new UA spoilers, please feel free to laugh at the possibility of having Cyber Ninja in D&D)
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Experience: 4 yrs or so.
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Availability: When I sign up, I know I should be free.
Preferred role: Player. But honestly, I am into serious relationship.
The way you described them was like they were those pop up ads. Not quite the same topic, but imagine that deleted Claudia Schiffer scene with Liam Neeson from Love Actually.
As for those little messages, not all browsers show them. My Edge doesn't, and I'd forgotten they even existed until now. It's odd that they only show for that one page on DDB (which is implied by your commenting on it), but I've never really delved into those.
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I had that gator thing - back in the day? Anyone else have that, remember that? It was basically a virus - a sort of quasi-legal virus - that spawned ads in your lower-right screen corner. Man that annoyed the hell out me for such a long time, until I found a tool to remove it. You literally couldn't uninstall it, once it had found it's way onto your machine.
I'm not sure that helps in any way, but this sounds like a similar thing.
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So...either everybody has poor peripheral vision or I just have super good one noticing all those little loading messages popping in the tiny little corners on every single website I have been loading. I thought everybody would be seeing those since those tiny little messages keep popping up every time you load a page, they come up like a fracture of a second, you see it or you miss it, but they surely pop up on every browser I have used. Unless you are on smartphone or smart devices.
I am trying to manage a character sheet, it has nothing to do with Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook, X or Bing.
They're probably related to the social media buttons at the top of the page. I believe loading the icons from the site is the norm.
I noticed, but Bing is not listed as a sponsor or related. Who else is going to have connection/handshake to the character sheet, those I want to know. And why?
I highly doubt anyone is posting their character sheets on Instagram. If they didn't treat them as bots and ban them, I wonder how some people are getting banned on Instagram posting their own selves...
Also, I didn't touch those icons. Just loading the character sheet.
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Personal Signature should be creative and original:
Game: DD 5e
Group preferred: On the line
Experience: 4 yrs or so.
Location/Timezone: Iseikai Time//EMT (Emilia-tan), but not MIT.
Availability: When I sign up, I know I should be free.
Preferred role: Player. But honestly, I am into serious relationship.
I noticed, but Bing is not listed as a sponsor or related. Who else is going to have connection/handshake to the character sheet, those I want to know. And why?
I highly doubt anyone is posting their character sheets on Instagram. If they didn't treat them as bots and ban them, I wonder how some people are getting banned on Instagram posting their own selves...
Also, I didn't touch those icons. Just loading the character sheet.
I am not understanding why you're saying bing is not a sponsor? None of this has any relevance to sponsorships of any kind. It's about site and browser functionality.
Just because the page is performing handshake requests on the character sheet page doesn't mean it's the only page that has them, or that anything about the character sheet is going anywhere.
No idea what you're on about with instagram sheets and bots. It's not relevant to this discussion in the slightest.
You don't have to touch the icons. The site will use a handshake request to pull the icons and link to the page from those sites so they can stay updated more conveniently. They link to the official D&D Beyond instagram/twitter/twitch/etc accounts and have nothing whatsoever to do with you, your account or your character sheet.
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Can someone please tell me why those keep showing up on the browser when I click onto my D&DBeyond's campaign's player's character sheet every single time?
I don't use neither of those and somehow in order to manage the sheet, the link connects to them? What is this new Cyber Sorcery Class doing in WotC? What is D&DBeyond cooking?
I am not Binging Tik Tok on my old Instagram browser!
If you too are seeing those, please feel free to laugh. I am afraid the new Artificer subclass is going to be Cyber Ninja!
(This post does not contain spoilers)
I wonder if I will be seeing "????.amazon" one day, but I do prefer seeing "Handshake to Unicef" instead. Just suggesting.
Personal Signature should be creative and original:
Game: DD 5e
Group preferred: On the line
Experience: 4 yrs or so.
Location/Timezone: Iseikai Time//EMT (Emilia-tan), but not MIT.
Availability: When I sign up, I know I should be free.
Preferred role: Player. But honestly, I am into serious relationship.
Game style: I don't fill the chat with ooc.
What browser are you using? Where are you seeing these popups? Do you have any extensions installed? Because this sounds like you have some kind of extension (or possibly malware) in your browser—I've never seen any such popup
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I’ve never seen that either. Do you get the same issue in another browser or on another device?
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Just tried the site on Firefox, Chrome and Safari and not getting any of these. As the others have said I think it's a problem at your end
A handshake is basically your browser establishing a connection to those servers to get updates and notifications. This is common in browsers that have in-built widgets, side-panels, etc for common stuff. For example, my main browser is Opera GX and has features to link in my Twitter, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Twitch and Discord accounts so I get notifications and messages in my sidepanel rather than having to use a separate app or keep a tab open. I can make a twitter update, reply to a FB or Whatsapp message, check discord notifications and see if any of my followed streamers are live on Twitch all without having to open anything else or navigate from the page I'm on.
Each time I open my browser it will send a handshake request to each service to establish and maintain a connection to these.
Even if your browser doesn't have such features built in there's extensions for all major browsers available that add such. You may want to check those.
It's possible for malware to be a cause but extremely unlikely. Handshake requests are very normal.
All browsers do some form of handshake - you know when you make a private/secure connection to a website - as noted by a padlock icon, etc? Yeah, thats a handshake. Any form of encrypted connection to any site is a handshake request.
Click ✨ HERE ✨ For My Youtube Videos featuring Guides, Tips & Tricks for using D&D Beyond.
Need help with Homebrew? Check out ✨ this FAQ/Guide thread ✨ by IamSposta.
Point of correction, no one has said their "browsers aren't doing such things". What was said is that no one has seen any popups or messages saying such things:
And malware was only mentioned as a possibility, not a certainty or even a strong contender. For example, they may have an extension that lets them monitor these requests. Or they could have malware that is interfering with the requests and is pushing them out as dialogues rather than behind-the-scenes messages.
It's always wise to be correct before you decide to correct
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
A few ADBlockers have lists/settings to disable those if they are Widgets built into a Browser. I just don't know which they are for each Browser.
If you can't turn them off with your settings, then that might be an option?
He/Him. Loooooooooong time Player.
The Dark days of the THAC0 system are behind us.
"Hope is a fire that burns in us all If only an ember, awaiting your call
To rise up in triumph should we all unite
The spark for change is yours to ignite."
Kalandra - The State of the World
So...either everybody has poor peripheral vision or I just have super good one noticing all those little loading messages popping in the tiny little corners on every single website I have been loading. I thought everybody would be seeing those since those tiny little messages keep popping up every time you load a page, they come up like a fracture of a second, you see it or you miss it, but they surely pop up on every browser I have used. Unless you are on smartphone or smart devices.
I am trying to manage a character sheet, it has nothing to do with Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook, X or Bing.
Ah! That explains something. I know, but as said, I am doing my business, not with Bing, not with Tik Tok, not with Facebook, what the heck are they doing in the character sheet? What business do they have with a character sheet on D&D Beyond? Thank you for reassuring my worries. Now I need to know why my browser has to establish a secure link to those weird companies who have no business with my campaign nor my player's character sheet at all.
Not those ad-like pop-ups, those tiny little system bubbles keeping tabs on what your browser is processing. Man, idk how people are not seeing those, it's 2025; those little bubble things were prehistoric. I have used one of those old Stranger Things modem-dial computers (but not on MS-DOS) before and even they have those little bubbles informing what the browse is currently connecting to and exchanging data with. I am not seeing why a character sheet on D&D Beyond would have any businesses connecting to Tik Tok, McDonalds, KFC, London Museum or whatever sites that aren't supposed to be related to a character sheet. If Lewis Hamilton is playing in my campaign and the page said it is connecting to f1.com, that I would understand, perhaps he saved his sheet on f1.com. It doesn't make sense when I get connected to those weirdo sites when I am only managing a player's character sheet of zero significance to those companies. How does it require my browser to establish a link to those companies? It isn't logical, it doesn't make any sense, which is why I seek to know the answer. Thank you for the input. I know what you meant by malware pop-ups.
I know there are guys here who can solve macros like an Oppenheimer doing a Manhattan Project. So are there any geniuses who can explain those weird connections being established to unrelated companies? Unless McDonalds is sponsoring me, I will gladly build them some McDonalds in my homebrew world. Till then, why would loading the character sheet establish a secure link to weird companies that are none of our businesses in the campaign? That is my question.
Hopefully those new UA Cyber Ninja class playtesters can come help answer this question, we surely need help in understand these cyber voodoos.
(The message does not contain any new UA spoilers, please feel free to laugh at the possibility of having Cyber Ninja in D&D)
Personal Signature should be creative and original:
Game: DD 5e
Group preferred: On the line
Experience: 4 yrs or so.
Location/Timezone: Iseikai Time//EMT (Emilia-tan), but not MIT.
Availability: When I sign up, I know I should be free.
Preferred role: Player. But honestly, I am into serious relationship.
Game style: I don't fill the chat with ooc.
Well, there's the issue.
The way you described them was like they were those pop up ads. Not quite the same topic, but imagine that deleted Claudia Schiffer scene with Liam Neeson from Love Actually.
As for those little messages, not all browsers show them. My Edge doesn't, and I'd forgotten they even existed until now. It's odd that they only show for that one page on DDB (which is implied by your commenting on it), but I've never really delved into those.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
I had that gator thing - back in the day? Anyone else have that, remember that? It was basically a virus - a sort of quasi-legal virus - that spawned ads in your lower-right screen corner. Man that annoyed the hell out me for such a long time, until I found a tool to remove it. You literally couldn't uninstall it, once it had found it's way onto your machine.
I'm not sure that helps in any way, but this sounds like a similar thing.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
They're probably related to the social media buttons at the top of the page. I believe loading the icons from the site is the norm.
I noticed, but Bing is not listed as a sponsor or related. Who else is going to have connection/handshake to the character sheet, those I want to know. And why?
I highly doubt anyone is posting their character sheets on Instagram. If they didn't treat them as bots and ban them, I wonder how some people are getting banned on Instagram posting their own selves...
Also, I didn't touch those icons. Just loading the character sheet.
Personal Signature should be creative and original:
Game: DD 5e
Group preferred: On the line
Experience: 4 yrs or so.
Location/Timezone: Iseikai Time//EMT (Emilia-tan), but not MIT.
Availability: When I sign up, I know I should be free.
Preferred role: Player. But honestly, I am into serious relationship.
Game style: I don't fill the chat with ooc.
I am not understanding why you're saying bing is not a sponsor? None of this has any relevance to sponsorships of any kind. It's about site and browser functionality.
Just because the page is performing handshake requests on the character sheet page doesn't mean it's the only page that has them, or that anything about the character sheet is going anywhere.
No idea what you're on about with instagram sheets and bots. It's not relevant to this discussion in the slightest.
You don't have to touch the icons. The site will use a handshake request to pull the icons and link to the page from those sites so they can stay updated more conveniently. They link to the official D&D Beyond instagram/twitter/twitch/etc accounts and have nothing whatsoever to do with you, your account or your character sheet.
Click ✨ HERE ✨ For My Youtube Videos featuring Guides, Tips & Tricks for using D&D Beyond.
Need help with Homebrew? Check out ✨ this FAQ/Guide thread ✨ by IamSposta.