PSA self-hosted server pinged by 'ads-fs22.giants-software.com' every 150 seconds

[traveler87]

Heads up if you host your own server. I've checked my Pihole logs and i'm blocking requests from this URL to my server's IP every 2:30 minutes. Not really sure what the payload is but I've never seen that with other games I host. It's not vital as my server is running fine.

For those that don't know Pihole is basically and adblocker like a Chrome extension like AdBlockPlus that applies to your whole network. If you don't use it sometimes you can set blocks in your own router.

If so, you may want to block that URL if you like privacy and/or want to preserve bandwidth.

Perhaps this has to do with that popular thread discussing targeted ads in game?