Never ever give marketing access to deploy arbitrary JS onto your website under any circumstances.
Google Tag Manager is an absolute cancer on web development.
Once it's in, you'll never get rid of it.
Google Tag Manager is an absolute cancer on web development.
Once it's in, you'll never get rid of it.
Apparently it lets people drop in random code from a bunch of different analytics platforms, so it's pretty much guaranteed to consist entirely of the sort of stuff I have NoScript enabled to block in the first place.
Some random guy in his basement assured someone in marketing they could handle our volume? Chuck their tag in and watch their website get DDoS'ed with millions of requests per minute, which takes out our website because marketing made it fail loudly.
IT can often be "we make someone else's bad idea happen," and that's because we simply lack veto power.