Hi Mark, I'm not sure whether upstream is the right place to address this, but I'll try. I just downloaded all versions of the rsyslog sources from rsyslog.com, and found 'googlesyndication' links in the following versions: rsyslog-4.8.0 rsyslog-5.10.0 rsyslog-5.10.1 rsyslog-5.8.13 rsyslog-6.6.0 rsyslog-7.3.0 rsyslog-7.3.1 rsyslog-7.3.2 rsyslog-7.3.3 rsyslog-7.3.4 rsyslog-7.3.5 rsyslog-7.3.6 rsyslog-7.3.7 rsyslog-7.3.8 rsyslog-7.3.9 rsyslog-7.3.10 rsyslog-7.3.11 rsyslog-7.3.12 rsyslog-7.4.0 rsyslog-7.4.1 rsyslog-7.4.2 rsyslog-7.4.3 rsyslog-7.4.4 rsyslog-7.4.5 rsyslog-7.4.6 rsyslog-7.4.7 rsyslog-7.4.8 rsyslog-7.4.9 rsyslog-7.4.10 rsyslog-7.5.0 rsyslog-7.5.1 rsyslog-7.5.2 rsyslog-7.5.3 rsyslog-7.5.4 rsyslog-7.5.5 rsyslog-7.5.6 Which means it's gone in 8.x.x and in 7.x.x starting from 7.5.6. 4.x.x, 5.x.x and 6.x.x haven't been cleaned ever. CASE 01544649 opened upstream. Cheers, Pete.