Was just recently fighting with this... - Rahsheen ™

it really shits me as as well, because I'd love to use some of them, but widget makers are the dodgy used car salesman of the online space :-) - Duncan Riley

Maximizing load time, eh? You're supposed to go the other way. - ...Vezquex

After I got a note from Duncan re: site load time, I pulled a few of my widgets as well. Pat Hawks' Yahoo! Pipes solution is one culprit, but I like the FriendFeed comments on Blogger solution too much to pull it. - Louis Gray

There are iframe plugins for widget issues like this...not that hard to implement, either (nor are they perfect, but probably easy enough and better enough for a lot of people). - abacab

This is an issue, Yahoo Pipes has been a serious problem for me as well, but I can't find a better way to do what it does. - Aram Zucker-Scharff