GoDaddy injecting site-breaking JavaScript into customer websites, here's a fix

Found on Tech Republic on Monday, 14 January 2019
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GoDaddy's analytics system is based on W3C Navigation Timing, but the company's practice of unilaterally opting in paying customers to an analytics service—tracking the visitors to websites hosted on GoDaddy services—without forewarning is deserving of criticism.

Kromin notes that he is "not against web host providers monitoring how their servers are running," but that "Injecting JavaScript into pages being served is far from passive and... a violation of trust between the web host and the customer."

Tracking users with methods that sound like a MITM attack are not a smart way to deal with your customers, or the GDPR.