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If that pervert Firefox sent you here, please don't read it and proceed directly to the Main Page.

This page is or discusses a loony and/or nutty conspiracy theory, which Uncyclopedia vehemently denies knowledge and existence of. The black helicopters are ^not _^on their way.

Warning: This will probably make no sense to you.
This article may be hilarious if you are familiar with whatever it pretends to explain, but otherwise you will probably have no idea what the hell is going on. If you can think of a way to make it more accessible, make it so.

%s is an evil entity that helps Mozilla Firefox in her sinister plans for Interweb domination.

For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about %s.

Nobody is quite sure what %s is (as the place of a whiny, nerdy sidekick is already occupied by Mozilla Thunderbird); everyone knows, however, that on wikis, %s must be redirected to the Main Page, with little to no explanation, because otherwise Firefox can use that wiki as a propaganda point for the "Spread Firefox" campaign.

While currently the %s redirect is implemented at page level, there are plans for the 15th major MediaWiki release (F.x) to include %s as a hard-coded synonym for the Main Page. The after-next release of the popular Firefox OS distribution Ubuntu (coming after Dapper Drake and Edgy Eft, codenamed Fiery Fox) will include the support for %s at the OS level.

It should be noted that the %s conspiracy is already embedded in the C language, whose developers foresaw the coming of the One True Browser. Just try writing, for example:

printf("Hey, what is this %s thing?\n");

and you will notice that %s conceals its presence by intercepting rays inside the monitor, so instead of %s, you will see gibberish, or nothing at all!

Firefox and web servers, to some extent, also help %s hide itself (and that's not to mention what Firefox does if you type %s in the Google box. It's a conspiracy, I tell you!) Just try typing this in Firefox to see:

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/%s

Such a link, usually perfectly normal, causes the server to pretend you don't understand what you want to see. Circumventing this protection against illegitimate, pirated, stolen, and fake access to %s requires a magic number. I tell you, they arranged it all!