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they stopped using the text because some forum campaign that promoted typing cursewords instead of the unkown word. they probably started showing cursewords on
by gcb0 8y ago
they stopped using the text because some forum campaign that promoted typing cursewords instead of the unkown word. they probably started showing cursewords on the rendered search highligths on google books.
there was a decent write up from a whitehat showing the damage, but I can't find it
- ianferrel 8y agoCite? I can't imagine some forum has enough traffic to meaningfully screw up their data, and they don't tell you which of the two words is the unknown word, so you're just going to fail a lot doing that.
- foxhop 8y agoIt was very obvious which was which and you had a 50/50 chance. I can confirm this used to work and I always used a curse word plus the known word.
- jachee 8y agoSounds like something 4chan would advocate.
- Leherenn 8y agoIt was pretty big on 4chan at least at some point in the early 2010's. And the unknown word was always the hard one to read iirc.
- have_faith 8y agoThis was extremely common on 4chan maybe 7 or so years back I can't remember the exact year and it worked for a very long time before anything was done about it and everyone knew to do it. Google asked for two words and presented them as two different fonts. The real word that needed transcribing was always identifiable and you could just write what you wanted as long as you got the second test word correct. Much fun was had.
- darkpuma 8y ago4chan was doing it specifically with a six letter racial slur that's unrepeatable.
- casefields 8y agoSince you're so afraid to use the word 'nigger' here's a book by a Harvard law professor you should probably read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger:_The_Strange_Career_of_a_Troublesome_Word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger:_The_Strange_Career_of_...
- darkpuma 8y agoBetter safe than sorry, there are enough people who think context doesn't matter.
- dvdkon 8y agoSo what's going to happen if you write "nigger" that you're so unwilling to write it? It's not like you'd be calling someone a nigger, you'd be using it in a clearly informative manner,
- amanaplanacanal 8y agoMy understanding is that some folks have gotten in trouble anyway. Good luck to you!
- darkpuma 8y agoI don't care to find out.
- waterhouse 8y agoI guessed correctly: the author belongs to the one racial group for whom it's politically correct to use the word.
- gcb0 8y agonot really. it started with the word "penis" for the original "campaign" but since a single word was obviously ineffective the meme improved.
- Dylan16807 8y agoMore importantly, it's trivial to filter out everyone putting in the same swear.
- wolfgke 8y ago> they stopped using the text because some forum campaign that promoted typing cursewords instead of the unkown word. they probably started showing cursewords on the rendered search highligths on google books. If I remember correctly, Google later on also sometimes showed two "known" words or, if they had actual other evidence that you are human, two unknown words.