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A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks'
Dating back to at least early 2023, a bizarre and alarming technical glitch started popping up in some organizations’ online surveys and forms.
Screenshot from RedditWhile the effects on our own survey were (fortunately) minor, we found that the problem had the potential to be more widespread than just the word “yes” changed to “forks.” Screenshot from a surveyOnce we discovered what was causing the bug, our vendor immediately disabled the browser translate function by adding HTML code in the survey wrapper. We hope this explanation will be helpful to you if you’ve encountered a similar issue, and we’re grateful to our survey respondents for alerting us to the error so it could be fixed.
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