A PSA:

[theweaselking]

If you are using a crappy browser, do not click on http://bringvictory.com no matter who sends you the link and no matter what they say it contains.

Comments

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

You could've just said what it is.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

SNITCHES GET STITCHES

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You're right, I could have.

[kjn]

But if you did, you wouldn't be you.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Firefox on Linux behaved manageably well.

[zastrazzi.livejournal.com]

Thank FSM for the blackberry browser :)

[marlo.livejournal.com]

*doesn't click*

[fortysevenbteg.livejournal.com]

Firefox on Windows forced me to kill the process. :P

Not pleased.

Especially since restoring the session restored the page, so I lost a bunch of tabs I had open. Luckily I don't remember what they were, so I don't feel any particular feeling of loss. :P

[marlo.livejournal.com]

p.s. never gonna, never gonna

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's evil.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You know, even if you have scripts running and it starts, you can kill it *without* losing your tabs.

Step 1: CTRL-W to kill the "tab" that's causing the browser to jump around.
Step 2: Either CTRL-W again or just click the regular tab button to close it.

It starts popping up the lyrics.

Step 3: Click through the song. When it reaches the end, it will give you an "OK or cancel" box. If you hit OK, it lets you close the tab. If you hit cancel, it restarts the process.

You *can* hold down the Enter key to skip through the lyrics faster. However, some of the more annoying versions of the site set "cancel" as the default action, meaning it cycles. The original has Enter as the default.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

What part of "do not click this, no matter who links it and what they say, this is a Public Service Announcement" was unclear?

[fortysevenbteg.livejournal.com]

Aye. I'm usually fairly adept at shutting down javascript annoyance pages, but this wasn't playing ball. Near as I could tell it was going through all of the lyrics with a standard alert() box, then it'd get to the end, and as soon as I'd try to close the page, it would intercept it and restart the lyric-spam loop. It's entirely possible I flew past that last box and didn't realize it was a confirm() box. Hmm. (Dare I try again? ;D)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You were clicking "cancel", which is probably the default setting on this version.

[fortysevenbteg.livejournal.com]

Rascals.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

I don't get it. Is something supposed to happen? =(

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You, unlike the people swearing at me, use NoScript.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

You realise i must kill you now

[canid-anubis.livejournal.com]

I'm happy with how it looks just fine with No Script ... I'll take your word on it with anything else :)

[crazy-alexy.livejournal.com]

Yay for "snap shots". I wouldn't have clicked it anyway, but that doesn't mean I didn't want to know what it was. ^_^

[geekalpha.livejournal.com]

NoScript to the rescue!

[pvck.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, Safari played the video, made me click through all the boxes, and then when I hit the last one closed the tab for me. Is there a less-sane failure mode for crappier browsers?

(I thought it was very considerate of them to close the tab for me at the end.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

IE and default Firefox 3 both jump the browser window around the screen and repeat the popups if you click "cancel" instead of OK.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I opened a second browser just so that I'd be able to force-kill it from the Task Manager without losing anything.

I lol'ed.

[botia.livejournal.com]

Now, see, if I hadn't clicked it, I wouldn't have learned that from you today. I'm glad you made the PSA, and glad you posted this comment ;)

[marlo.livejournal.com]

You're just trying to start shit now. ;P

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

Google Chrome has an explicit "do you want to prevent further dialog boxes from spawning" option on the dialog box, so it was pretty trivial to get out of it. That said, I laughed.

[mrbankies.livejournal.com]

Nice... One of the better of those I've seen.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That's a good feature. I hope Firefox copies it soon.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful addon it is though.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

You know, I opened it in chrome and was pleasantly surprised at it giving me a little check box that would prevent that site from spawning any more windows. Kinda nifty.

[fearmeforiampink]

I find it insteresitng that Opera, which when I last came across that website fell victim to it (though wouldn't've done for a simple unchecking of 'enable javascript'), this time showed me none of the boxes.

No "something tried to pop up", video playing, but without the boxes appearing, and with Javascript enabled.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

There are people who don't use NoScript?

Weird...

[braneverseeking.livejournal.com]

its obvious why not if using noscript and flashblock in firefox

[elffin.livejournal.com]

It never stops being funny.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

I love safari.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

That is quite handy. I might consider trying that thing afterall.

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Give you up, let you down.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're great... unless it's something like this.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Then there's also this: http://w4rc0rpz.net/images/6fj333t.jpg

Where you can change everything after /images/ to whatever you like so it's more believable.

[chizzer.livejournal.com]

Heheh

[jirel.livejournal.com]

Not that interested.

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

Well, I just had to uninstall it because it was keeping me from downloading a Fallout 3 mod, even when set to allow everything from the website I was downloading from. So ... yeah.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

I just killed my speakers and hit "Ok" until it finished the ENTIRE lyrics.

[rgovrebo.livejournal.com]

What worked for me was clicking OK then hitting CTRL-W immediately after.