I can't read the Straight Dope at home

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Disaster! Gnashings of teeth!

Upon entering the SD site at home, I am greeted with everything except the thread titles. Which makes it rather hard to click on them.

I’m using Windows 2000 and IE5.

Can anyone diagnose my problem? Or is there something in the SD site that is fundamentally incompatible with my house?

pan

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Are there any other websites on which hyperlinks are invisible? If so, I’d guess that somewhere you have a setting which is displaying hyperlinks as white text on a white background.

Do you have a flat-screen/LCD monitor? Sometimes things can appear invisible on those from certain viewing angles.

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Are the thread titles still invisible after you click on them and then come back to the list?

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kabbes, you don’t have any tacky Seventies furniture located near your 'puter, do you?

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Have you got any kind of adbuster software running on your computer? ISTR someone starting a thread about having to disable his program in order to read the board.

wanders off to do a search

Here we go, it was a program called webwasher. Looks like it did more than just screen out the thread links, but this might be a similar problem.

One other thread that mentions the problem.

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I’musing Win2000 and IE5.5 and haven’t had a problem.

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Obviously I have to wait until I get home to try it, ut:

KtK, definitely not those problems. Nice thought though.

Coldfire - are you kidding? WIth the kabbess around? I’m not allowed near the decorating plans. I just get to do the actual decorating.

And one shed.

Kat - you may have hit the nail on the head. I think that Freeserve installed some kind of advert blocking program. I shall remove it forthwith.

Bah. Does nobody make an ad-blocker that actually works?

thinksnow - are you sure that you don’t have “a problem”? Hmmm?

pan

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Someone else just asked about a similar problem.
The cause may be your color scheme.
In the browser options, there’s a choice to use the main windows color scheme. Some “Theme” screen savers mess with those and can make certain colors so close together you can’t tell them apart.

Or, someone/someprogram may have set your colors to “Accessibility Hi-Contrast”, which uses only a few colors, and many colors “map” into the same one.