If we navigate way back into the recesses of our memory to the era of GeoCities websites and MySpace pages, we might distinctly recollect the popularity of the visitor-counting widget.
Commonly displayed on homepages across the web, these widgets served as credibility indicators to help site visitors identify the popularity of a website.
While this feature may have gone out of vogue with current website design trends and advanced analytics tools, they also fell out of favor for bad behavior – from stealing traffic and redirections to planting trojans and malware.
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Source: Security Feed