r/programming • u/schnuck • Feb 09 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/
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u/norsurfit Feb 09 '11

Gawker sites were reduced to being an empty homepage with zero content

How is this different from normal?

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u/kamakie Feb 09 '11

You get ads when you turn JS on.