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Comment author: gwern 23 November 2013 12:13:34AM *  1 point [-]

I just loaded http://lesswrong.com/ in both my Iceweasel and Chromium (Debian testing), and C-u, C-f 'suite', 'specific' - I see nothing? Nothing in curl either.

Comment author: Pfft 23 November 2013 06:50:58AM 3 points [-]

You will not see it with View Source (C-u). Try right-clicking on the page and selecting Inspect Element (in either Firefox or Chrome). (The tag is added by some Javascript, so it's only present in the DOM, not in the original source).

Comment author: Pfft 23 November 2013 07:07:33AM *  4 points [-]

Ok, it seems the culprit is this fragment

 <!-- Site Meter -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="<http://s18.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s18lesswrong>"> </script>
<noscript>
<a href="<http://s18.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s18lesswrong>" target="_top">
<img src="<http://s18.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=s18lesswrong>" alt="Site Meter" border="0"/></a>
</noscript>
<!-- Copyright (c)2009 Site Meter -->

Commenting it out will get rid of the vindicosuite stuff. So I guess this is sitemeter.com gone rogue.

Some Googling found at least one other person who noticed the same problem.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 23 November 2013 07:44:02AM 1 point [-]

There are a few other blogs complaining about this.

AdBlock can handle it with this pattern:

||s18.sitemeter.com$domain=lesswrong.com
Comment author: Lumifer 23 November 2013 12:43:27AM *  2 points [-]

Interesting. I just looked on an entirely different computer and there's nothing.

Since the connection is http (and not https) I wonder whether there's some code injection going on...

But on the computer I used during the day there was a call to x.vindicosuite.com with a bunch of parameters. It was at the very end of the page, right before the closing </html> tag.

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