qBittorrent trying to access Google?

[jcunews]

I've just installed qBittorrent, but it tries to access Google?

https://i.imgur.com/OeRNaXm.png

After I blocked the network request, my firewall application created this rule.

https://i.imgur.com/gAEV1pV.png

Why does qBittorrent needs such request? And how to stop it from doing that.

[mike20021969]

[quote="jcunews"]
I've just installed qBittorrent, but it tries to access Google? ... Why does qBittorrent needs such request?[/quote]

Maybe Google is the search engine that's used if looking for torrents to download...?

[sledgehammer_999]

It is for the tracker favicons.
If it fails to download a favicon using the tracker domain/ip, it fallbacks to using a google service for that which sometimes has better success.
The url for google is:

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https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=

and the tracker domain/ip is appended to that in order to get a reply

[jcunews]

So, disabling the "Download tracker's favicon" setting should (indirectly) disable that request, correct?
I don't need any favicon, anyway.