What does this mean: “[removed]('<scr'+'ipt… ”?

Question

I\'ve seen this on every Yahoo! news page, at the bottom of the source code,
and failed to understand why they break the script word like that.
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Answer 1

Some browsers tend to "act" to fast when parsing a document and immediately try to execute the javascript when they find a script tag (even though it is itself in a piece of js). To avoid this they break the decalration of the tag.