[throwawaypanda]

>The bar for including javascript from other sites should be a high one

>but that's not how most developers think these days.

The decision to include third party javascript is sometimes not even up to developers these days.

"A deal has been signed with company X, put their widget on the site" is something I've now heard a few times.

Arguments about the third party code greatly increasing page load time, page size, introducing security vulnerabilities etc then fall on deaf ears. High developer turnover seems to co-occur in these environments.