[wp-hackers] Advantage (or not) of hosting badges

[Jamie Holly]

> Yep.. I've seen that too.
> 
> The difference is, Google Syndication (AdSense) is added to a site via
> JavaScript hotlinked from their servers - not even an iframe w/ Google
> as a
> source or (as other ad providers do to avoid this very problem) an
> image tag
> with the source pointing to a dynamic URI.
> 
> In my experience, it's only JavaScript that can do this (Ajax Slowdown
> -
> caused by the same thing).... JavaScript breaks a lot of the web! :)
> 

Sitemeter has also been very bad with this lately. 


Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net