Anybody else getting weird script on DU posts?

[albacore]

I read a post just now, and it looked like this...
"My bff�s son, who I�ve written here about a few times..."

Several others, too.

I did nothing to bring this about.

Any help?

[marybourg]

1. Mods are aware.

[aka-chmeee]

2. Seeing it the same way here. nt

[demmiblue]

3. Yes:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/125617043

[oregonjen]

4. Yes and twice as many ads, as well

[Coventina]

6. Yep, same here. The site is almost unreadable, now.

[machI]

21. The constantly changing ads bother me.

I cannot concentrate on the topic while an ad is shifting and changing at the edge of my vision.

[House of Roberts]

5. I posted about this earlier

https://www.democraticunderground.com/125617043

[rurallib]

7. yea- I have figured that when people post copied scripts with apostrophes in them

the apostrophes seem to translate to garbage. Thus up there you have "bff's son" and "I've written"

so eventually you learn that the garbage is an apostrophe.

Edit to add - this has been going on for me for years on various sites. dailykos is really bad

[Squinch]

8. Yes.

[skylucy]

9. YES!

[Ohiogal]

10. Yes, me, too.

[Nikki28]

11. the same

I was afraid someone hacked the place.It also looked like Russia writing. Not to mention the annoying ads.

[EarlG]

12. Hi, it's not a script

It’s a problem with the character set. Smart quotes aren’t being recognized by some browsers so a weird question mark is being substituted. This is related to updates we’ve been doing this week.

It’s not a security issue — just annoying. Sorry about that. We’re working on a fix.

[blaze]

14. LOL... sorry, I just had to laugh at all the examples in your post.

But I'm sorry you have this annoying problem to work on.

[chillfactor]

13. yes....

and every time I click on a post I get a blank out screen in the bottom of my laptop screen and have to click on x in order to erase the frustrating screen.

[Coventina]

17. It's an ad. I have way more ads now than I've ever had before. n/t

[EarlG]

22. Hi there

When you're seeing way too many ads, are you on mobile by any chance? What browser are you using?

[Coventina]

24. Hi Earl G! I'm on Chrome on a Chromebook.

Thanks!!!



(Sorry for the late reply, I'd gone out for a walk!)

[KG]

15. ads all over the place

[yonder]

16. All afternoon. Sent a long note to the administrators

after not seeing any posts about it. Whew, this is a relief personally thinking I'd been hacked but I pretty much had isolated it to DU.

[rurallib]

18. I use both Google Chrome and Apple Safari as browsers

There are certain things I can do only in one or the other.

I have noticed over the past couple of days that in Safari link to tweets pop up inside of posts on DU. The I am looking at DU in Chrome I have to click on the tweet to see it.

Similarly in Chrome I get the garbage you are talking about, whereas in Safari I do not get the garbage.
So it appears to be the browser. Looks like when I am on DU I need to use Safari.

[AllaN01Bear]

19. me three.

started yesterday.
am using sea monkey. did a test on artic fox, not there . using ad block and adblock plus plus for those .

[BannonsLiver]

20. Yes, apostrophes apparently set it off.

[NCDem47]

25. Yes.

I emptied cache, turned off ad blocker and turned back on and all issues went away.

[ananda]

26. Yes

It's something to do with the apostrophe, for sure.

[Talitha]

27. Here too.