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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is a very curious thing happening on a thread here
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I wanted to know if this has happened to anyone else here.
Some months ago I installed an extension that warns if I'm visiting a site that is being boycotted. I forgot all about it until a few minutes ago.
When I try to click on one particle thread here the extension is telling me that the site is owned by News Corp.
It doesn't do it for any other part of DU. Just one thread. Anybody have a clue what is going on?
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)malokvale77
(4,879 posts)I'm being blocked from the thread. But I have read other threads with links that might be questionably.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Now I'm curious. Will do my best to check it and reply with my answer.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)I don't want to give everyone here a false reason to distrust this poster for such a silly phenomenon.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)pkdu
(3,977 posts)I use a very effective host file. I never see ads.
blogslut
(38,016 posts)malokvale77
(4,879 posts)but it seems odd that it is blocking a post and not the rest of the site.
I can of course, turn off the extension or make an exception, but it seems such a curious happening.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Reply #61 has an image hosted by newscorp associates:
http://www.news.com.au/
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)thats the link the extension reported.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)because links on a page would cause it to block. I do not think it has anything to do with the poster, but rather a link in the content of the post.
It was the picture NYC_SKP suggested.
I knew the author of the OP was OK, which was why I didn't want to post the link.
On the other hand I am now very suspicious of the agenda of the picture poster.