Folks,
A few months back, StatCounter was approached by an advertiser, offered lots of $$$, and asked to include a spyware cookie on all of our member sites…we refused on the spot.
You install StatCounter to track visitors to your site NOT to open yourself and your visitors up to being spied upon by phantom advertising corporations.
It appears, however, that other players in the world of webstats were happy to take up this offer…
We were shocked to discover just today that another well known stats provider is allowing up to 9 cookies to be installed in the browser of every visitor that hits one of their member websites. This means that the provider is making money by transmitting data on you and your visitors to a third party advertiser. Not only that, but to add insult to injury, the cookies are causing the member websites to load very slowly too.
In light of this, StatCounter wants to assure you that we track your visitors for you, only you and not any one else.
Which provider would you prefer??
By the way, welcome to our new blog 😉
Very true, very good. Now thats what I call a brave company.. Keep it up.
And Yes I want add to what I said earlier.
Your passion for truth , transparency and knowledge sharing is your virtue. Doing it is virtue.
The team behind Statecounter: I want to devote this line to all of you.
” If Knowledge Sharing is Key, then Working together is Dynamite.”
Thanks Again.
You are simply amazing. I must be dreaming… This is too good to be true. Good honest caring kind generous people do exist in this business oriented world! I am so impressed and happy and thankful and appreciate and hats off to the StatCounter!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
Thanks so much. I’m definately telling more people about StatCounter.com.
Michelle, I think the competition is going to have a lot of trouble with lawsuits because the internet is alive with people complaining about being redirected from websites with that meter to specific click’s jensondemo program. There is a case in the state of Maryland which sets a precedent for something like this where a website is hijacked by spyware. Whatever profit the competition made, they need to use some of that to get themselves some legal advice. I am confused that a company did something which is going to finish them off. Why destroy a customer base? It does not make sense!
Hurry up with those T-shirts! I would love a statcounter T-shirt.
That’s awesome! I am about to install statcounter on my 6th website and am happy to know that you’re looking out for our best interests. KUDOS, too, on having the class enough not to name names with the competition (not to mention it can save you a lawsuit if they wanna be hardcore about it.)
This makes me want to pay for the premium service.
People like you are rare these days 🙂
We will be using the visible version of your stat code asap.
Thanks for standing up to ‘the man’!!
Thank you for saying NO! Your excellent product AND your guarantee of no spyware are the reasons I am a PAID member, and will continue as one.
Best, Lee
THANK YOU! Thank you again. Good on ya.
FINALLY! A Company with Scruples! Thanks!
thanks for keeping it real
Love the fact that you guys said no. You rock! I read up there somewhere that sitemeter is doing some of this weird re-directing stuff.
I might have to take sitemeter off of my own web-page.
However, the ONLY thing that I use sitemeter for is the ‘Who’s on now?” option, which lets you know how many people logged on your page in real time, and which Statcounter does not appear to have.
Is there any chance that you guys can also implement this new feature so that I can get rid of Sitemeter’s account?
woa! thats scary, I didn’t even know that could happen! But thanks for saying no!!
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Hey, great job StatCounter! 😀
For those of you looking for the “other guys”, read the comments! SC may not want to name names, but other people sure do!
And for those of you who think the SC cookie is spyware (not to mention the anti-spyware programs), y’all really need to learn what spyware is! The only thing I’m disappointed with is that I can’t create blocking cookies for all my projects (too many cookies). This also may be causing the login problems for the earlier comment poster.
I’m happy y’all are doing the right thing, and I will be upgrading in the near future as well!
-Fuzzy
I submitted my response too soon. They checked details for contacts at sitemeter on their credit card statement and called the telephone number in MD which was listed as sitemeter. They got a message saying the number does not exist. They have been paying a company with a non operational contact.
The site I visit has a paid up sitemeter, upgraded product, and sitemeter released specificlick was relased onto their BUSINESS site. Google then went and cached the pages with specificclick on them. Bottom line – those people running that site paid for that sitemeter and they got spyware. They are going to sue. Having that spyware has ruined their reputation for integrity
You’ve made a lot of people very happy! And that’s why I will not hesitate to recommend StatCounter to those in need.
That’s great to hear. Thanks for the great service StatCounter!
JSuar