StatCounter Says NO!

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??

StatCounter says No!

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1,030 Comments

  1. Thank you.
    I won’t stop using Statcounter anytime soon, and the 3 years I’ve been using it have been a delight. Like everyone else, I’m impressed and appreciative of how much you care for your users.

  2. Thanks, guys. I appreciate what you guys have been doing and for declining the offer.

    Keep it up!

  3. Your services are much appreciated by our non-profit organisation (working on rights-based issues). Thank you for notifying us about your decision. We’ll make a reference to your policy on our website so users understand that the Statcounter cookie is non-malicious and comes from a principled decision. We’ll stay with Statcounter!

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  6. BOTH Spybot and Ad-Aware are identifying StatCounter as spyware in their cleanups. I’m glad to find out that these are false-positives.

    ARE THEY TOUGH?


    StatCounter Team Response

    Hi IDNBY,

    StatCounter is not spyware. Unfortunately we are sometimes incorrectly flagged as that. It’s something we are continuously working on.

    We use a single tracking (not spyware) cookie only to track visitors to your site and the information we gather is collected for you and you alone. This is in contrast to other providers who collect information on visitors to your site on behalf of third party advertisers.

    I hope this clears things up for you.

    Thanks for your comments!

  7. To SLT Radio,

    I am a customer for over 5 years. what do you have to say about that then?

  8. I’m with the rest of the commenters and commend you on your “NO” stand. Hope you get even more business because of it. All the best.

  9. RESPECT TO A COMPANY WITH A STRONG ATTITUDE IN TODAYS CORRUPTED BUSSINES WORLD

  10. Firefox’s add-on NoScript kept blocking a strange “speficicclick.net” when I was accessing my *own* completely ad-free website. I worried and wondered about it for a couple of days, until I discovered that it was leaking in from the biggest free counter sites on the web whose services I had been using for years.
    I had a StatCounter on a couple of my sites already, but I’m certainly bringing the rest of them over right now.

  11. Thanks! Your service is excellent and I am grateful that you said “no”! Keep up the great work!

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