{"id":23943,"date":"2019-01-14T14:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T19:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23943"},"modified":"2019-01-14T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T19:20:44","slug":"godaddy-javascript-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/14\/godaddy-javascript-injection\/","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy JavaScript Injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igorkromin.net\/index.php\/2019\/01\/13\/godaddy-is-sneakily-injecting-javascript-into-your-website-and-how-to-stop-it\/\">Igor Kromin<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=18894792\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.igorkromin.net\/index.php\/2019\/01\/13\/godaddy-is-sneakily-injecting-javascript-into-your-website-and-how-to-stop-it\/\"><p>The technology that&rsquo;s in use here is called <strong>Real User Metrics<\/strong>  and GoDaddy has a page about it here - <a title=\"Go to https:\/\/au.godaddy.com\/help\/why-am-i-signed-up-for-real-user-metrics-31969\" href=\"https:\/\/au.godaddy.com\/help\/why-am-i-signed-up-for-real-user-metrics-31969\">Why am I signed up for Real User Metrics?<\/a>. If you happen to be a customer in US (which I am not but the website is hosted in a US data centre) then you are automatically opted into this service and all your website&rsquo;s pages will have this JavaScript injected into them.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The worst part of it is GoDaddy, in their help article, admits that this could slow down or break your site! So much for a tool that is designed to improve performance and reliability!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It sounds like this only happens if you use GoDaddy as a Web host, rather than just for DNS.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igor Kromin (via Hacker News): The technology that&rsquo;s in use here is called Real User Metrics and GoDaddy has a page about it here - Why am I signed up for Real User Metrics?. If you happen to be a customer in US (which I am not but the website is hosted in a US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-01-14T19:20:46Z","apple_news_api_id":"684cc422-62d0-4436-ad07-d32dc4e609dd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-01-14T19:20:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AaEzEImLQRDatB9MtxOYJ3Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[747,346,96],"class_list":["post-23943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-godaddy","tag-javascript","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23944,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23943\/revisions\/23944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}