LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards

Posted by jhabdas on Sunday July 15, 2018 @12:21AM
from the self-post dept.

On the Web both of these tools are fairly heavy on JavaScript. Both of them started writing text I entered backwards as I typed it, rendering then unusable. This has never happened with any other software I've used. Any ideas what could be happening?

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Re:LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards by zhte415 on Sunday July 15, 2018 @01:50AM (#17533982)

Happened to me on LinkedIn a few weeks ago. Bizarre error. Using browser on Linux, not any phone apps,

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Re:LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards by jhabdas on Monday July 23, 2018 @07:30AM (#17591952)

So I'm not the only one. For me the solve was to delete my accounts on those services. Hasn't seen it happen to me since.

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Re:LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards by spicyj on Sunday July 15, 2018 @06:11PM (#17537364)

Browser extension? I know Millenials to Snake People caused this at one point.

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Re:LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards by jhabdas on Monday July 23, 2018 @07:32AM (#17591960)

Oh interesting. I believe I'd tried that extension for fun at one point, but switched to Yandex and was only using a handful of extensions at the time (M=>SP wasn't one of them).

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Re:LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards by tiredwired on Sunday July 15, 2018 @12:37AM (#17533810)

Maybe browser setting or malware. Try a different browser.

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Re:LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards by ecesena on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:03AM (#17538883)

Try in incognito, it will tell you if it’s them or a browser issue (plugin, cache, ...)

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Re:LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards by abenedic on Sunday July 15, 2018 @12:34AM (#17533804)

Unicode stuff? I am not super familiar with their stacks, but perhaps some marker is wrong.

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