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Never ever give marketing access to deploy arbitrary JS onto your website under any circumstances. Google Tag Manager is an absolute cancer on web development.
by 0xy 6y ago
Never ever give marketing access to deploy arbitrary JS onto your website under any circumstances.
Google Tag Manager is an absolute cancer on web development.
Once it's in, you'll never get rid of it.
- artellectual 6y agoAgreed!
- Natsu 6y agoThe only thing I knew about 'tag manager' before this was that it was always blocked by NoScript. Your comment made me go look up what it does and now I know that I will never unblock it. Apparently it lets people drop in random code from a bunch of different analytics platforms, so it's pretty much guaranteed to consist entirely of the sort of stuff I have NoScript enabled to block in the first place.
- 0xy 6y agoI've seen GTM take down production multiple times because of marketing shipping random JS with no approvals. Some random guy in his basement assured someone in marketing they could handle our volume? Chuck their tag in and watch their website get DDoS'ed with millions of requests per minute, which takes out our website because marketing made it fail loudly.
- aembleton 6y agoI'm surprised that GTM doesn't handle that. They would have a good idea of how long requests are taking to different domains and limit requests to the slower ones.
- at_a_remove 6y agoI mean, yes, true, but it kind of misses the point: marketing doesn't ask you, they ask up. And we're just the BOFH pinheads who make everything so harrrrrd with our stupid "concerns." IT can often be "we make someone else's bad idea happen," and that's because we simply lack veto power.