If you are reading this post in Internet Explorer, then the third word in the title is probably appearing as *****. Am I right? You wanna know what it says? Open the blog page of this article in Firefox, and you can read it in its entirety. What I’m about to tell you is seriously scary, but absolutely genuine.
So I was reading this submission on Digg which links to an article on CNN about what Clinton has publicly said a short while ago. The Digg user who submitted this wanted to point out the irony, and put two more words in front of the original news headline. Usually I read through the comments, and a smart user pointed out that apparently the first word in the Digg submission is not rendered and replaced by asterisks, when using Internet Explorer.
Stunned by this observation, I tried this out myself. And behold, it’s TRUE!!
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Submission as it appears on Digg, with current Firefox 2.0.0.12, including View Source.
Submission as it appears on Internet Explorer 7, including View Source (Notepad++ is my source editor on my work machine here).
Now I am not aware of any user accessible word filtering options. Which means that this is deeply rooted into the code of Internet Explorer. So what else are you tracking, huh?!
Use Firefox kids, I mean it.
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UPDATE:
For some strange reason IE does not do this with my blog. O_O
Are you guys over at Redmond FILTERING CONTENT ON CERTAIN PAGES?!?!!11?
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