Back in 2011 my gut reaction was to treat the embedding of Discus comments and 'roll yourself a quickie comment section' as the end of something good and the beginning of something bad. Completely invisible to your average user, both the potential for 'central lockdown'and cross site tracking that was 'invisible'. Outsourcing a common webmaster maintenance task in a way that affected other people in ways they didn't realize. At first. We Men Who Yell At Clouds remember the before times. Discus was the first commonly used script embed, even when people were copying and downloading,installing,serving their own libraries instead of linking to creepy sites.
Security's better now in general. But the same hands-on approach sometimes brought us widely exploited 0-days. Drupal was obnoxious. Yet people knew throbbing banner ads were cross-site things in a way you could turn off.
Security's better now in general. But the same hands-on approach sometimes brought us widely exploited 0-days. Drupal was obnoxious. Yet people knew throbbing banner ads were cross-site things in a way you could turn off.