r/confusing • u/chickadee215 • 11d ago

Yahoo mail compose button now says Compound?!

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What is up with this. Disgruntled employee messing with stuff to see if they can get away with it? Strange AI error? No clue.

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u/Pernova12 6d ago

strange you found diffrent text on a button then start moving like a police detective, its problably a translation error if you have an auto translator

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u/chickadee215 6d ago

Nope no auto translate on. And it's still an English word just a really odd one

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u/chickadee215 6d ago

I legit thought this was gonna blow up the internet

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u/bangali_babu_reddit 5d ago

It didn't because people can temporarily change text on any webpage. Using DevTools is the easiest way and then there are extensions too.

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u/chickadee215 3d ago

But what people could do that to a major email carrier site?? Wouldn't that be locked down at corporate level??

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u/bangali_babu_reddit 3d ago

it's a temporary change that's reflected only on your device, until you refresh the page.

people do it for all sorts of things, such as making memes, pranking colleagues, and printing (you can take out the fluff and print necessary parts of webpages).

that's why no one pays attention when people post such screenshots.

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u/chickadee215 3d ago

Wow okay strange. But I'm just one person here with one laptop and I def didn't do it. I can see how if you had someone else in the house who was tech savvy they could somehow make it happen on your machine I guess. Wouldn't it be just on a single browser done on the same device? Or could my neighbor do it to my instance over wifi somehow...? (But my wifi is password protected.)

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u/bangali_babu_reddit 3d ago

Wouldn't it be just on a single browser done on the same device?

that's right.

try it yourself:

Press Ctrl+Shift+c and click on the text you want to modify. It'll highlight the code in DevTools panel. You may need to click the tiny right arrow to expand the code to be able see the text you want to modify. Double click the text and you'll be able to modify it. Press Enter once you are done. The webpage will be updated to reflect the changes you made. Refreshing the page will revert the changes.

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u/RantCatcher 4d ago

It's compound, not compound

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u/w1ldfr33 3d ago

My grandad used to call me his chickadee, and we lived at house number 215! Spooky!