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Journal tomhudson's Journal: I'm still a bastard ... and tomorrow is Troll Tuesday [tt] 9

Journal by tomhudson
BTW: Tomorrow is Troll Tuesday - any ideas for a meme? (... and while you're here, check out this joke ...)

BandwidthHog was nice enough to call me a bastard here for some stuff I mentioned in his journal ... and yes, the guy I referred to is still working on his latest update today. Hasn't noticed that its all G-O-N-E!!! Replaced. Shit-canned. Oh well - it'll keep him out of trouble for a while.

But even more fun - I finally decided to find out WTF we're paying for being on a bunch of sites, and not getting decent results. So, today I checked the first site.

First problem - our profile shows us as being in the boonies, instead of 10 minutes from the downtown core. So anyone using the site will think we're a lot further away than the competition ...

Second problem - someone thought they were being "cute" or "innovative", or they were stoned - they chose a default picture that I swear you can hear the dueling banjos being played by the mouth-breathers ... that was replaced real quick.

Third problem - we're paying to list inventory on there, but there are TOO MANY BANNER ADS, ETC. So, a couple of minutes experimenting, and it turns out that it's 'sploit time! - any text entered for a description isn't escaped before being stored or served up!. I suddenly feel like Dark Helmet saying "I can't believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book!" to Lone Star.

So, a little inline css, a little inline html, a little inline javascript ... and voila

  1. a new text banner ad covers theirs, and it's none-scrolling to boot
  2. another one on the left side covers some more, also non-scrolling
  3. another one on the right side covers some more, same deal (a pattern is emerging)

So far so good - but I'm not happy with the stupid little thumbnails - and at the bottom of the page. Time for more experimenting ...

Sure enough, it turns out that the original image (756 x 512) is still there, just shrunk down by the browser. Time for some more javascript ...

... create a div, insert the image, grab a reference to the body tag, insert the div with the image at the very top of the document ... pushing all their crap to the very bottom of the page :-)

The funniest part - the guys are all going "how did you hack their site?" Try explaining to them that it's not "hacked" ... just fucked.

So, next task is to create a set of scripts to automagically crawl the site, inserting my "magic" every evening around supper time, and removing it before 8 am every morning ... or maybe just doing it at random every few items, every few minutes ...

I guess I could just walk the DOM and hide everything that isn't ours, but that would be a bit TOO obvious ... or would it?

Then I have 5 more sites we're paying for and not getting the bang for the buck that I have to "check out".

... any bets that at least one other one is similarly brain-deprived?

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