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More stupidity comes along…

Saturday, May 31, 2008

I have this friend who posted a bulletin on friendster about JS Linkers being blocked again…

 

 

  

Just to give you a background on what "JS Linkers" are they are script tags whose src is a js file…

<script src="http://fakejslinker.com/jsLinker.js"></script>

They are used on social networking sites to ‘give more features to your page’ kinda thing… but hey… I’ve experienced one of these and heck it’s bothersome…  

The poster’s JS acted something like.. when you visit his page, an Alert pops up welcoming you and if you are not one of his friends the page reloads to the friendster home screen…. 

Why is it bothersome?

(1) There’s an alert… Like hello~ alerts are a thing of the past on websites!!

(2) It reloads the page to another page… time and bandwidth consuming!

On top of that I don’t think they are called JS linkers because they don’t link JS’es!

And as far as "BUGS" are concerned.. it is a bug in itself…

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is really a problem due to security reasons.. And Friendster users exploit this. Some hide their ’scripts’ by changing the file extension…

JavaScript is powerful and useful but use it wrongly… it’s gonna be one good tool to pester people… especially blockers like Alerts~!

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