# I can't read the Straight Dope at home **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 4, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-read-the-straight-dope-at-home/96818 "2001-12-04T13:47:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-read-the-straight-dope-at-home/96818/1 "2001-12-04T13:47:13Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-read-the-straight-dope-at-home/96818/2 "2001-12-04T13:54:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-read-the-straight-dope-at-home/96818/3 "2001-12-04T13:56:52Z")
Are the thread titles still invisible after you click on them and then come back to the list? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-read-the-straight-dope-at-home/96818/4 "2001-12-04T15:51:49Z")
**kabbes** , you don’t have any tacky Seventies furniture located near your 'puter, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-read-the-straight-dope-at-home/96818/5 "2001-12-04T23:44:15Z")
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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=51539), 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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25185) that mentions the problem. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-read-the-straight-dope-at-home/96818/6 "2001-12-05T02:21:47Z")
I’musing Win2000 and IE5.5 and haven’t had a problem. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-read-the-straight-dope-at-home/96818/7 "2001-12-05T10:58:41Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![annalamerino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@annalamerino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annalamerino)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-read-the-straight-dope-at-home/96818/8 "2001-12-05T19:44:50Z")
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.