What I Did Wrong…
I did something wrong a few months ago. I added a widget to my sidebar that advertised online auctions. There was some small potential for revenue and it wasn’t very obtrusive. As I found out today, things can change quickly when you have installed javascript from an outside party on your site. It is gone now. I didn’t get to observe first hand what was being loaded onto the computers of visitors to my site this morning.
If the code for a widget has an address ending in js somewhere in the code, you may be in for a surprise when someone makes changes to what exactly your site is calling for with that address.
When I looked through all the other widget codes that I have on Slamboard, I did not find any that were set up in the same way. I may be over reacting a bit, but I was made aware of this by a concerned reader. Readers shouldn’t have to be concerned.
