Hyperlinked text weirdness

June 29, 2005 1:40 PM

In the thread about setting suns and British empires, I made a comment to the effect of, WTF? I just didn’t understand what the discussion was about. After logging onto another computer, I finally see why. I wasn’t seeing the punch line link. In both Firefox and IE, I don’t see the hyperlinked text. This is not a problem in any other FFP. Weird; what gives?
posted by found missing to Bugs at 1:40 PM (15 comments total)

I've deleted my cookies, baked my cookies, blown my cookies; but, I'm still seeing only:

And nobody said anything.
posted by Mekon at 11:54 AM CST (41 comments total) ( humor ) [!]
posted by found missing at 1:44 PM on June 29, 2005

what do you see?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:21 PM on June 29, 2005

I see

We're sorry,

United Kingdom ended on March 31, 2005.

Is that all? Because it resembles a freeware MP3 encoder if so.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 2:44 PM on June 29, 2005

And nobody said anything.
posted by Mekon at 11:54 AM CST
posted by found missing at 2:44 PM on June 29, 2005

PST: I can't see that, because I don't have any link to click.
posted by found missing at 2:46 PM on June 29, 2005

Same in Safari 2.0. The entire text of the post is "And nobody said anything." Freakishly, the link and text appears in the source but not on the rendered page!

Oh. The link URL contains the word "promotions." I bet it's getting ad filtered.
posted by majick at 2:48 PM on June 29, 2005

Aha! That's two mysteries solved. I was really confused by that post. Really, really confused.

I just disabled Norton's ad-filtering, and there the link was.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 2:53 PM on June 29, 2005

so, that works about as well as pron filtering, huh?
posted by quonsar at 3:05 PM on June 29, 2005

Wait. You mean I can get p o r n on this computer too?
posted by found missing at 3:10 PM on June 29, 2005

this is classic:

I've deleted my cookies, baked my cookies, blown my cookies; but, I'm still seeing only:

And nobody said anything.
posted by Mekon at 11:54 AM CST (41 comments total) ( humor ) [!]
posted by found missing at 1:44 PM PST on June 29 [!]


what do you see?
posted by mathowie at 2:21 PM PST on June 29 [!]
posted by quonsar at 3:25 PM on June 29, 2005

"so, that works about as well as pron filtering, huh?"

It's much better! With porn filtering, you still get a web plastered with advertising, but slightly less porn. With ad filtering, you see a web without advertising, but the porn is still there.
posted by majick at 4:10 PM on June 29, 2005

Works in my copy of Safari on tiger. Are you guys running some sort of Adbock extensions or tweaks?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:15 PM on June 29, 2005

I just tried disabling my Symantec ad block and the link appeared.
posted by found missing at 4:24 PM on June 29, 2005

Have a look at the URL:

.../promotions/hi_unitedkingdom/index.jhtml?adld=unitedkingdom,redirect,21

No surprises that an ad-blocker that works would block that.
posted by dg at 4:52 PM on June 29, 2005

Yep, NIS notoriously blocks any URL that has "ad" or "promo" or any other selly-type words in it. Lazy if you ask me since it blocks my site (which has no paid for adverts on it and never will thankyouverymuch) and for example "mad.nu", danish food recipe site "mad" means food. You can buy NIS 'speaking Danish' but the adfilter itself still filters in English. ;) Dumb thing.
posted by dabitch at 3:57 AM on June 30, 2005