"Dee" wrote

| I recently had a physical and got an email telling me
| I could create an online account to get my results.
| Athena.com. They recently paid a fine for illegal
| marketing. They tie into Google script. The site was
| a monstrosity. I'm supposed to talk to my doctor that
| way because email isn't private?! I'm guessing 5 data
| miners had my test results before I did. My doctor is
| subject to HIPAA. These 3rd-party operations are not.
|
| Wow. I did not know that. My doctor also uses Athena, and I hate
| having to login to it.
|

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/new...act-violations

I wasn't aware of it until recently. Apparently it's a big
business. The doctors don't know tech and don't want to.
They only want a legal, easy way to not have to look up
from their laptops. The webmasters are kids who don't know
how to code. So like so many sites these days, it's a circus
of javascript libraries.

If you use NoScript you can see what outside domains
are being called to code webpages. It seems no one knows
how to code sscript anymore. They're all using "javascript
libraries", which are basically giant wrappers that hide the
hard work and take care of accommodating different browsers,
so that the coders won't have to understand that stuff.


The result is that "everyone and his brother" is piggybacking
on most websites. Google have their finger in virtually every
commercial website, with fonts, APIs, jquery, captchas, ads,
analytics, and so on. Very few webmasters know how to
do any of that without Google's free trojan horse services.
But a medical data portal? That's nuts. I regret that I even
filled in the membership... especially since my doctor doesn't
tell me anything, anyway.

|
| Thanks, will take a look.

John said it wasn't showing up on his system. In that case
see if it's in View - Toolbars - Customize.