Why are parts of my blog being turned into hyperlinks?

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  irreverendforhire · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 6:30 pm

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  I have been using WordPress for years, and was appalled to find that, suddenly, a huge number of words and phrases on my blog have been randomly turned into irrelevant hyperlinks… it’s really going to be upsetting if this can’t be corrected. No idea why it started doing this… help!

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 7:03 pm

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  That’s sounds to me like a browser add-on issue. WordPress.com does not use text enhance or text link ads or pop-up ads or links in comments. If you are seeing those then that’s a browser-ad-on issue, or in some cases, it’s embedded into free games and/or toolbars downloaded from the internet. See here: Bloggers: Beware of Adware. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/09/14/bloggers-beware-of-adware/

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  irreverendforhire · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 7:23 pm

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  Thanks – yeah, right after I posted this I noticed the same thing on another webpage… and thanks for the link! Hope that does the trick!

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Dec 12, 2012 at 7:25 pm

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  If you follow the instructions, it will. :)

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