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No. Perhaps the most important part of this is keeping the user informed.
by austincheney 8y ago
No. Perhaps the most important part of this is keeping the user informed.
- mehrdadn 8y agoWhat do you think most users would (and should) do if they were told your hosting provider was injecting scripts into the page? Stop using your site?
- zbentley 8y agoHopefully. The alternative (silently alert and hope I pick up the phone) might not be so bad for users if a hosting provider is running analytics or ads, but from a detect-and-alert perspective it's pretty hard to tell the difference between a scummy-hosting-provider script and a credential-scraping bonafide hack. Many people (or robots) who install the latter aren't smart enough to defeat alerting measures, so it's a big benefit if those measures warn the users directly.
- austincheney 8y agoYour question is the difference between marketing and craftsmanship. Are you primarily proud of your product or trying to increase your traffic?