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> And that was after an incident where the entire site was turned purple by another external JavaScript...

lol, what was the root cause? Defacement/scriptkiddie attack or a "background covering" ad that did not recognize the content area and paint over the whole screen instead?

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The script was for a yearly user survey run by a small company. It has an awards ceremony attached so I think thats why some marketing people like it. After the survey ended the script was not removed of course.

Around a year later the site changed color when their script started injecting a new stylesheet into our site. They never really said what happened only that they had restored the old version of the script. Maybe some developer pushed dev code to the old production url or maybe they were hacked.

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