Family Life

I found out today that my web service provider had secretly added a “service” to track all my web pages, all my visitors. They did this by tacking on some code at the end of every page. At first I thought someone had hacked into this blog, because the addition completely killed the WordPress admin pages used to manage the blog. Things were a bit tense for a while because I couldn’t get in to examine things behind the scenes, couldn’t log in to fix it.

So I turned to the NoScript browser plugin to discover where the offending code was coming from, and to block it. Now I could log in to the blog admin pages. After some searching I found … nothing. Everything was as it should be. How strange. I remembered that Google is your friend for all things technical, and did a quick search to find other irate customers with the same problem, and hence to a solution. So it’s all fixed. For now.

The more general issue is that my service provider should never have done something like that in the first place, especially without telling anyone. On the other hand, it’s a free service, and I guess you get what you pay for. I often get the urge to move to a more reliable, more reputable provider. But that would cost me money, of which I have none in these hard times.

Photo note: Macabre sculpture outside the prison tower at Prague Castle, Czech republic.

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