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November 26, 2004 Link to this post
A way to circumvent the spoiler system
The last time I posted a spoiler-marked news item, I received a TON of email from people who have not figured out how to get their browser to properly set a cookie to view spoilers. There seem to be two groups with the problem: folks running MacOSX 10.2, and folks running Windows while using some sort of external firewall (Norton products are the most common culprits). Safari under OSX 10.2 is broken, with respect to certain types of cookies; we used to point people to a workaround, but stopped doing so after Panther was released (newer versions of Safari work fine with our spoiler system). You can still use this - clearly, you'll need to change a few settings - see the bottom of that page for details. For Windows users, your alternatives are less palatable; you can either live without spoiler posts, or you can tone down your internet security settings. Because neither of these are ideal, we've added a third choice: On the page that explains the spoiler settings, we've added links to a couple of pages that can show you all spoiler-blocked posts. If you're missing some news that you don't want to miss, and you can't make the spoiler system work on your computer, use these links to see the news normally blocked. Here's hoping this alleviates some of the pain! (Louis Wu 15:51:42 UTC)
