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PA needs to turn safesearch off (and a small bug)

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Topic: PA needs to turn safesearch off (and a small bug)

Posted By: Henry Plainview
Subject: PA needs to turn safesearch off (and a small bug)
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 18:14

I have to give credit for the illustrious Anthony H for noticing this recent development, but I'm an attention whore so I made the thread.

I don't know when this happened, as it did not used to be the case, but the Google search engine has safesearch on and there's no way to turn it off. I assume this is an accident caused by Google's default settings and not a deliberate policy (which is why I put this in bugs rather than suggest improvements), but it should be fixed as soon as possible. You'll notice it makes it impossible to find something like http://www.progarchives.com/google-search-results.asp?cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=naked+city&cx=partner-pub-0447992028883143%3Aj1syec-2iv1&sa=submit&siteurl=www.progarchives.com%2F" rel="nofollow - naked city , and I'm sure there are other bands/albums with vaguely obscene names that would get blocked but I can't think of any right now.

In other search related news, I understand why the drop down box has an option to search Google's crawl of the whole forum, since PA's search does not allow post body searching, but why is there an option to search the whole internet with Google from the homepage? Has anybody ever actually used that?

Also, on Opera often when I am writing a post in the box, by the time I finish it says my session has expired, and I need to refresh the page and cut-paste what I wrote back in. It's not as bad as losing my whole post to the insufficient permission bug, but it's still really annoying.

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if you own a sodastream i hate you

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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 18:36

I'm fairly certain Henry brings problems to this website. Ban him please.

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https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays

Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 18:42

Epignosis wrote:

I'm fairly certain Henry brings problems to this website. Ban him please.

This is censorship! Just like Google is blocking our freedom to search for naked prog! If I want a photoshop of Ian Anderson's face onto Ron Jeremy then that's nobody's business but mine! I'm going to get Wikileaks on this. Then you'll see.

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if you own a sodastream i hate you

Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 18:50

Henry Plainview wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

I'm fairly certain Henry brings problems to this website. Ban him please.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WoekzBFK7IA/SLX4XSPiI-I/AAAAAAAAJ-o/SlKvGQCcGXg/s200/Ian02822.jpg" rel="nofollow - - I Google image search Ian Anderson and Ron Jeremy, and this is what resulted.

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https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays

Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 18:52

Epignosis wrote:

Henry Plainview wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

I'm fairly certain Henry brings problems to this website. Ban him please.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WoekzBFK7IA/SLX4XSPiI-I/AAAAAAAAJ-o/SlKvGQCcGXg/s200/Ian02822.jpg" rel="nofollow - - I Google image search Ian Anderson and Ron Jeremy, and this is what resulted.

Oh deary me.

Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 19:19

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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 21:52

Thank you for bringing this to the site's attention, Henners. Thumbs Up

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Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 22:05

Epignosis wrote:

Henry Plainview wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

I'm fairly certain Henry brings problems to this website. Ban him please.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WoekzBFK7IA/SLX4XSPiI-I/AAAAAAAAJ-o/SlKvGQCcGXg/s200/Ian02822.jpg" rel="nofollow - - I Google image search Ian Anderson and Ron Jeremy, and this is what resulted.

I lol'd.

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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 02:45

Henry Plainview wrote:

You'll notice it makes it impossible to find something like http://www.progarchives.com/google-search-results.asp?cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=naked+city&cx=partner-pub-0447992028883143%3Aj1syec-2iv1&sa=submit&siteurl=www.progarchives.com%2F" rel="nofollow - naked city , and I'm sure there are other bands/albums with vaguely obscene names that would get blocked but I can't think of any right now.

I can see it in the results, it's just not in the first results Embarrassed

Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 02:57

Oh, you're right, I got so distracted by blinding fury at this communist censorship I didn't see it further on, that makes sense as not many artists or albums here have city in the name. But still!

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if you own a sodastream i hate you

Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 03:42

I'll ask mailto:M@x" rel="nofollow - M@x to check.