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Change your profile from No Swearing to Swearing at the bottom of the page (or vice versa). I've had to put a load of changes into the system to stop Google seeing links / images / even youtube videos because people keep linking to porn. I seem to have got it all fixed now for desktops, but mobiles seem to be treating the cookies differently.

Tiocfaidh ar la.

 

Try it now, ya fanny?

 

It's not my code, I've had to modify it and there's tens of thousands of lines of code to get through. Anyway, you can't code.

Show me a major website which doesn't use cookies.

 

Why have you been doing an IT support job instead of a programming job - I could link to you to 500 medium level coding jobs in London paying £40k+ right now?

 

The user preference cookie this site uses is for 'Styles' (which you can change at the bottom of the page). The problem we were having was that if a Guest viewed a post before a logged in member it would cache the 'Link removed' text, then show that text to logged in members after loading it from the cache. I've therefore had to create separate style for logged in users and logged out users because the vBulletin system caches posts according to style - and I need Google to only see a cache of filtered posts with no links to porn etc.

So when the initial cookie is set for the 'Guest' style preference I have to overwrite it when users log in to move them to a different style. It's further complicated because vBulletin built a load of preferences for Mobile styles which automatically overwrite the cookies I'm setting - so I've had to find that code and modify that too, which I think I've just done there now.

Of course I wouldn't have to do any of this bollocks if people didn't post porn links or pictures on the public boards.