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When I click on external links, I get a window pop up saying that I'm leaving the Sims Forums and if I'd like to continue to click the link.
Is anyone else seeing this? Any fix to turn it off?
Is anyone else seeing this? Any fix to turn it off?
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I am having this appearing also. It has just been happening these last couple of days.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
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Thanks rose! Glad I'm not the only one.
First photobucket is acting up on the forums and now this! Yikes!
Very strange!
If it really is a security update, it's meant to stay.
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portion out of the code, which usually surrounds the image coding, which is the only part which is needed to make the picture appear. So what you really need from their auto-generated coding is this part:
That should get Photobucket, Flickr, etc. images to display correctly instead of displaying as text-links.
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I had this for a few minutes the other night (maybe when they put the update in?):
It didn't stay that way for very long, fortunately. It was mostly amusing because it was so odd.
That's super annoying. I really hope they'll fix that soon. Like someone else said, this could be a nightmare for Creative threads and other picture heavy threads!
I thought this was a windows 10 update thing? I noticed right after my latest windows 10 update.
Are you talking about pictures? Or links that take you to external sites? If it's the links, the warning still pops up in the new tab.
Yes, I was speaking about actual links. It works for me most of the time to right click it so it won't take me off site. But if it does you can hit the back button and go back to site but then you have more cookies stalking you if you do that.
Maybe it's just me because I'm still having the problem with right clicking and opening a new tab. I get the warning and then I have to click on the link.
SimsVIP used to do this all the time with her photobucket. She would link a picture on her site or someone else would link it here. You could see her entire photobucket because they leave the 's' in the http.
Have you tried clicking on an external link lately? It should give you a warning that you're about to leave the Sims site. Then it says click this link (whatever link it is) to continue.
No, I only click embedded videos. I meant is it new members posting these links? Because if it is they are posting them wrong and causing the problems.
Oh I see. No I don't think so. I clicked on a link from my Creative Corner that was to a build I uploaded to the Exchange and I still get the warning. I haven't changed the way I post links.
Something weird is happening in these forums, like with photo sharing sites too. Pictures are disappearing, though there's a work around for that.
When you get errors on this site sometimes you can click a small icon at the bottom and see how many times this site has been hacked. I haven't seen those 404 errors but just telling you, it is possible to see how many times this site gets hacked sometimes if you ever get a 404 error.
I'll take a screenshot next time I'm on my pc.
In the case of the photo sharing sites, they create an auto-generated piece of BBCode for use on forums, and that piece of coding includes a link-back to their service as part of their own ToS. Their auto-generated coding typically looks like this:
The new link security the forums has put in place (the "You are leaving this site" message applied to links) just doesn't work right on these links embedded within an image, so instead they are converted into a text link and display on the forum as:
IMAGE_URL_TO_PHOTO.jpg (in text, like that, right on the forum, instead as the proper picture)
It isn't that the image hosts are doing anything wrong (they want a link-back as per their ToS), and it isn't that the users are doing anything wrong by copying the auto-generated script these hosts provide, exactly... but because the forums have added this (in my opinion unnecessary, though it is unlikely to change back to the way it was) link security, now the only way to get images to appear correctly is to remove the URL bits of coding from the code so you are just left with the IMG bits of coding. A lot of Simlit threads and other creative corner/image-heavy threads have been massively affected by this, and I think a lot of new members, who logically think they can just copy/paste the auto-generated BBCode from image-sharing sites, are going to be baffled when it doesn't work.
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That explains it much better than I did @Cinebar
Thank you @mastressalita
But in the instructions here somewhere it says to remove what you said earlier and most people (including myself) don't get it right (or I never do) to post the link of an image or whatever.