Re: [Haskell-cafe] "malicious" JS on haskell site

2010-09-10 Thread Ketil Malde
"Albert Y. C. Lai" writes: > Looks like the free web counter was sold to an advertiser as few years ago. I've seen this happen before, and it's just a strategy - first provide some cross-site neat function, wait around for a while, then replace it with some ad-serving crap. Take home lesson: on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] "malicious" JS on haskell site

2010-09-09 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 10-09-09 05:30 PM, Keith Sheppard wrote: Maybe malicious isn't the right word but there is a JS based web counter on http://www.haskell.org/complex/why_does_haskell_matter.html which likes to show pop up adverts. They must have switched over from counting visitors to showing adverts at some po

[Haskell-cafe] "malicious" JS on haskell site

2010-09-09 Thread Keith Sheppard
Hello cafe, Maybe malicious isn't the right word but there is a JS based web counter on http://www.haskell.org/complex/why_does_haskell_matter.html which likes to show pop up adverts. They must have switched over from counting visitors to showing adverts at some point since the web page was create