Pfft comments on Open Thread, November 15-22, 2013 - Less Wrong

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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