Large Heydon ColliderAug 26, 2023

It's so funny to me how particular developers are about testing and version control, then they give non-developers the ability to dump any old third party shit on the page. That's what Google Tag Manager lets happen.

https://front-end.social/@ksylor/110953466826485701

Katie Sylor-Miller (@[email protected])

If your marketing team has access to GTM with no audits or controls or engineering review and oversight over 3rd parties, then you probably send PII without knowing it too!

Front-End Social
Show threadTommy PalmerAug 28, 2023
@heydon At a previous job one of the marketing people accidentally used GTM to remove the checkout button. Took a few days to notice.
Show threadKey PicklesAug 28, 2023

@tommyp @heydon I once had a manager who added a snowfall effect script via GTM to an ecommerce website for Christmas.

He hadn't consulted the dev team - it just appeared one morning.

The performance was dreadful and the snow would build up when it landed, which meant all the payment buttons on small screens were soon buried under snowflakes.

You couldn't even click through them so there was no way for mobile users (the majority of our users) to buy anything.

Show threadTommy PalmerAug 28, 2023
@durbster @heydon Amazing. Who knew that a website could get snowed in. Absolutely incredible.
Show threadLarge Heydon Collider
@tommyp @durbster I love and hate it so much.
Aug 28, 2023 at 5:53pmWeb