This isn't hypothetical either - back in June it came out that a popular CDN hosting JS polyfills had been sold to a new provider and was distributing malware inside the legitimate scripts that sites were loading. It impacted a 6-digit number of websites and anyone who used them, and it turned out that this had been going on for months.
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in reply to @aloe's post:
Idk why people have to use JavaScript for a webring in the first place just use hyperlinks
i guess it might be useful for inserting new sites into the ring or removing ones that have shut down without having to update the markup of the sites themselves. though i would probably use an iframe for that.
I'm personally using onionring just because it simplifies the synchronization of new sites, but yeah, this is something I worry about re: hosting my webring.
I thought a webring was just you linking the previous site on one side and the next site on another and that's it :x
at the minimum, that does work, but if you want the entire ring to remain navigable in the face of new sites entering and old ones going down you're going to need some kind of clearinghouse (mailing list? irc channel?) for maintaining the global integrity of the ring, and the temptation then becomes automating that process
i tend to think a page of links on every site is a much better idea than a "ring"
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