Not Fade Away
Dec. 3rd, 2009 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogSo has your Google home page been acting funny the past few days?
Kinda like this?
Mine started doing it this morning. It's not much of an issue in and of itself, but it got me worrying that it was a symptom of some kind of virus, worm or other icky I may have stumbled on- and I've had at least a couple stumbles in the past week, one a Facebook friend getting hacked and sending out a video I clicked on the entry for (but not the actual vid link), the other some code on some page that tripped an antivirus alert.
This site, in an entry from almost two months ago, explains it all. Or rather, doesn't explain much about why the Google boys were up to these shenanigans, just that they thought it was cool, heh heh, and decided to inflict it on us.
There's a way to turn it off, but it involves a Firefox add-on called NoScript, which I was using when there was some serious Naughty Hacking going on with LJ entries. It's an even bigger pain in the ass itself for everyday browsing, so I guess I'll just get used to the fade-in. At least until they turn it into a full preview/refreshments/feature presentation reel like this one, which I still whistle at least once a week despite General Cinema having been defunct for decades now:
Gummi bear? It's been in my pocket; they're real warm and soft....
Kinda like this?
Mine started doing it this morning. It's not much of an issue in and of itself, but it got me worrying that it was a symptom of some kind of virus, worm or other icky I may have stumbled on- and I've had at least a couple stumbles in the past week, one a Facebook friend getting hacked and sending out a video I clicked on the entry for (but not the actual vid link), the other some code on some page that tripped an antivirus alert.
This site, in an entry from almost two months ago, explains it all. Or rather, doesn't explain much about why the Google boys were up to these shenanigans, just that they thought it was cool, heh heh, and decided to inflict it on us.
There's a way to turn it off, but it involves a Firefox add-on called NoScript, which I was using when there was some serious Naughty Hacking going on with LJ entries. It's an even bigger pain in the ass itself for everyday browsing, so I guess I'll just get used to the fade-in. At least until they turn it into a full preview/refreshments/feature presentation reel like this one, which I still whistle at least once a week despite General Cinema having been defunct for decades now:
Gummi bear? It's been in my pocket; they're real warm and soft....
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Date: 2009-12-04 01:34 am (UTC)You know, I usually like Google's simple design, but hiding links and running a script isn't simplicity, it's idiocy.
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Date: 2009-12-04 02:19 am (UTC)