[Needs inspecting] Web bug and potential malware found on washingtonpost.com

We’re blocking quite a few trackers on washingtonpost.com but Gilles pointed us to some other potential malware on Twitter:

.@saymedia why are you asking to take control of my MIDI devices on the Washington Post? This smells of malware distribution to me. https://twitter.com/sparrk/status/823141515778260997/photo/1 Source

I can’t see that we’re blocking anything like this in the console. There are a fair few mystery scripts loaded on the page, so it might be worth running an inspection. (Though I am wary that these scripts could vary from page to page etc.)

When investigating the above (on https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/22/kellyanne-conway-says-donald-trumps-team-has-alternate-facts-which-pretty-much-says-it-all/), I noticed the following web bug in the console:

• wprum.min.js
• //rumds.wpdigital.net/metrics/