I use Firefox as a browser. Now and then I go to my Disqus admin page to check on comments on the blog. Tonight I saw a comment I felt like responding to… and when I clicked the direct link to that comment, the Firefox security system went buggo and warned me that it wouldn’t link to Up-Ship.com because the site would try to steal my passwords and such. As you might imagine, this is not something I need to see. I went to the comment through a roundabout means… the main site, then the link to the blog, then the specific post. Everything went fine. Huh. So back to the Disqus admin page; further attempts to link straight to the comment all met with failure and warnings. But… clicking on *any* other comment? Went straight there, absolutely no hint of trouble. So what was in that one comment? Was there a link to something horrible? An attached file of doom? Nope. A single sentence stating that A_ex Jo_es was right. That’s it. It seems that that collection of words triggers Firefox. Which makes me wonder about what will happen with this *post.* Which… on second thought, I’m’a gonna do some slight self-censoring in both the post title and the body of the text because I don’t need people getting scared away from the blog, but I still think the incident was worthy of note.
Dec 112019