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Blawg Wisdom Issues
If you haven't visited Blawg Wisdom recently you've missed a few great updates from myself and Kristine, including a request for input on the future of the site. If you have thoughts on that, I'd love to hear them, but here's something perhaps even more important:
Someone has somehow embedded some crappy pop-up ad on Blawg Wisdom! I don't have a clue how they did this except that the site was hacked around the new year and I assume they got this in then. The trouble is I can't see how to get rid of it. It's an embedded image on the page; you can't see it b/c it's an invisible gif but it triggers a popup. You can see it's there if you use Firefox and choose “Page Info” from the tools media, then click the “Media” tab.
So there it is. The question: Do you know how I can get rid of this? Looking at the page source doesn't reveal it, and it's not in the MT template, so what the heck? Any ideas?
Posted February 4, 2006 02:27 PM | meta-blogging
Wow. Can't believe I'm the first one to answer this.
Look here. Your site stat tracker is being accused of implementing a popup system in its code. Looks like you may have to switch....
Posted by: A. Rickey at February 4, 2006 08:01 PM
Oh. I guess you took this post off the front page because you've solved the problem? Now I feel pretty silly... ;)
Posted by: A. Rickey at February 4, 2006 08:05 PM
...and now to make myself feel like a REAL idiot, this entry is showing up on your front page, just not in the same order that my RSS feed has picked it up. Note to self: next time, just send Ambimb a quick email.
Posted by: A. Rickey at February 4, 2006 08:16 PM
No no no == thank you! I have not solved the problem but I did suspect the stat tracker b/c that seemed to be the only possible culprit. I'll remove it and see what happens.
This entry should have been posted at the top of the page but for some reason every once in a while entries don't appear in reverse chrono order for some reason. I'm sure it's a flaw in the code used to ensure that the "ambits" links are always on the top of each day's entries. I would try to fix it but I think my attempt would be futile. I'd still like to find a better/different way to do ambits, but for now, this is the best I've come up with.
Anyway, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out...
Posted by: ambimb at February 5, 2006 12:47 AM
I loaded a copy of your page without the script on it, and got no popups, and then did get the popups when I re-inserted the script. While there is the slightest technical possibility that you yourself have installed some back-end scripting on your webserver that creates PRECISELY this effect, and that it's actually an Evil Ambimb Conspiracy (TM), I'm willing to put money on the site tracking script being the culprit.
May I suggest Sitemeter? :)
Posted by: A. Rickey at February 5, 2006 01:32 AM
i didn't see a popup, so maybe you've removed it already.
also, i second the recommendation for sitemeter.
Posted by: monica at February 5, 2006 11:23 AM
Yep, it seems to have been the nedstat/webstats4u thing. I look into sitemeter or maybe statcounter...
Posted by: ambimb at February 5, 2006 04:06 PM
