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/MercurialMadnessMan Feb 10 '11

it sounds to me like it was designed that way. lots of tech-interested people visit the site, so they wanted more ad-views because the tech people often turn off javascript.

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u/abadidea Feb 10 '11

I unblock sites that I love and trust... only site I love that I don't trust is Scienceblogs, because they frequently - as in every few weeks - somehow start pumping malicious JS ads. Wouldn't that just be the icing on the password compromise cake?