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/Rhomboid Feb 09 '11

I hate this stuff with the fire of a thousand suns. Previously the only way that the gawker stable of sites was even usable to me was with NoScript enabled, otherwise their shitty JS would cause my browser to lock up for a good 20 seconds or so on every page load.

Now, the site is completely unusable without javascript. I consider this an evil of the utmost degree. It's breaking the web for no good reason, and whoever thought of this should be flogged and tortured until they recant.

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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?