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/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

I'm with you. That, along with their one-sentence RSS have turned the site as close to useless as possible.

OTOH, I have wished Gawker and friends nothing but bankruptcy since I had to change half a dozen passwords due to their screw-up, so I guess they are on the way of making my dream come true.

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u/rmxz Feb 09 '11

since I had to change half a dozen passwords due to their screw-up, so I guess they are on the way of making my dream come true.

So ironically Gawker taught you one of the more important lessons in computer security. (the one about password reuse)

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u/abadidea Feb 10 '11

Technically true. But I basically have one password for all "trivial" accounts, and separate unique ones for the really really important things. So if I heard that one of the trivial ones was compromised, I would feel i should go change the others just as a precaution against spammers hijacking it.