Well, that's a new one...

Have you tried a different browser, like Firefox?

Is anyone else seeing anything like this?

Nothing has changed on our end, so I'm not sure what Chrome is picking up on. Hmm...

Seems this problem has affected @Mordhaus also https://videosift.com/talk/Chrome-Error-preventing-submissions. So the two sifters who provide a huge chunk of our content have been knocked out and i have to assume there may be others. I'm going to *frontpage this sifttalk as it will barely be seen if it's not.

Anyone have the skills to try and figure a fix?

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This seems to be a false positive issue on chromes end for some days.
Saw some logs from admins reporting the same for the current version of chrome post 04032017. Also, there were false positives due to a bug some time ago.

It can result from taking up malformed parts of the page due to missing / unbound variables etc. and interpreting it as modified site content. Even perfectly fine content can be misinterpreted in certain circumstances.

example of older false positive bug: empty attribute in form header
<form method="POST" action=>

Try using another browser for the time being.

Do not disable protective measures. It is however possible that indeed parts of your page were modified by browser plugins and or wanted or unwanted additions to your system. If in question perform a scrubbing on your system via a bootable system if desired.

I've done everything you have @PlayhousePals and I'm dead in the water also. I'll keep trying for a while, not really keen on using Firefox.

@Mordhaus
Why would you prefer chrome over firefox?
Just asking because I do not have a preference after opera dropped out of my sweet spot.

For those with Chrome issues, how about a new OS account and retrying Chrome from scratch to see if it is related the old Chrome and OS' datas?

It's more a matter of preference than anything. I like how chrome displays certain sites and it has a couple of extensions that I really like.

@Mordhaus and @PlayhousePals what version of Chrome and OS are you running?
Have you tried submitting from incognito mode or Chrome's guest profile?
When you open Chrome's dev console, what errors/messages do you see there?

Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit, fully updated. Version 57.0.2987.133 of Chrome. Tried submitting from incognito and guest profile. No errors in dev console tab.

Edit: Also downloaded canary (dev/test version of chrome) as suggested by chrome support. same error.

firefox works, guess I'll have to tolerate it until this gets resolved.

The feature request suggests that if a page gets a false positive you can send the following header:

X-XSS-Protection: 0

ref: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=654794

Or you could start Chrome with:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-xss-auditor

@dag @lucky760 Thanks to my nephew [who isn't even a PC guy] I now know I'm cookin' with Windows 10 Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.953) and Chrome Version 57.0.2987.133

Hopefully this info will help in resolving whatever is going on.

I'm not proficient enough [nor do I have the inclination to stress myself out right now] to understand what hoops to jump through with regards to Chrome nor do I really want to download another browser for one site. But thank you for your suggestions mxxcon [even if they're greek to me]

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Hmmm very strange. I'm on Chrome on the Mac - I keep it up to date and haven't had any problems.

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After reading up - it appears like it could be a defect in the current branch of the Chrome release.

Have you tried the Chrome beta? (beta software has its own risks of course).
https://www.google.com.au/chrome/browser/beta.html

From https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=654794#c9

Comment 9 by tsepez@chromium.org, Apr 3 (2 days ago)
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You can disable the auditor by sending an "X-XSS-Protection: 0" header. This may be required if you are allowing the users to post HTML back to your site.

I'm seeing this problem too. I tried to submit the Colbert riff on "Hey Stranger" and got the XSS issue as well. If it's really a Chrome bug it'll be fixed in the next version, I would assume.

@Mordhaus thx for the info regarding your browser choice.

@iaui yes.

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It will only be fixed if they think it's a bug.

Chrome Error preventing submissions has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims on that post.

After investigating this further, it looks like they turned this on in the latest release because they were worried malicious code could be hidden in the embeds people try to post. The likelihood of this is extremely slim if you are just embedding stuff to sites like this from sites like youtube, etc. So I just used the command line to turn off the auditor for now.

@dag, the same thing is enabled in the beta I believe. Since you are on a mac, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't include the change since macs shouldn't be affected by malicious code in this fashion.

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I FINALLY found a solution for this and it is now resolved.

Sorry it took so long.

You are THE MAN!!

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Didja miss me? Thanks @lucky760 for workin' your [uhoh it's] magic. And a very special Thank YOU to @eric3579 for alerting me to the situation by gum!

What did you do?

Wb!