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 😉
i’m glad to hear that StatCounter says NO to those advertisers. i really appreciate the decision that StatCounter has made. it is, in fact, telling me that it’s a wise and right choice to choose StatCounter. well, i need not to worry about any spywares are added on my computers, or the visitors’.
Thank you, StatCounter.
Switched…plain and simple…..that other site was slowing my site down NOTICEABLY over the last two weeks, and now I know why. I had gone over to Analytics…and someone recommended I try statcounter….and I’m impressed….
Good work guys……
Thanks guys!
Thank You.
StatCounter is Quality.
thanks so much! you made the right decision.
THANKS!!
Juding by the amount of comments posted on this blog so far, I really don´t need to say anything apart from GOOD on you StatCounter for saying NO to the un-named company who wanted to place spyware.
Keep up the excellent work and I am more than pleased with the service you have provided on my two websites over the last few years.
SL in Spain (from UK) and heading back soon!
Thank You StatCounter for recognizing the value of your core business. Providing information to your clients for a fee and NOT collecting their fee and information for sale to others.
Good Show!
Mark W. Stettler, AIA
Many thanks guys!!! StarCounter rules !!!
Congratulations!!!
A big demostration of business ethic. This news must be spread.
Thank you Stat Counter.
thanks…. thats awesome!!!!
You did well, thank you.
Thank you for not selling out.
thats very rare these days.
great work guys!
You guys are the best! You provide a great, free service and seem to care about the needs of your clients. Thank you for not caving in for money.
Thank u! That’s one of the multiple reason’s why you guy’s are the best counter today.
Thank you!!! The high quality of service you provide, including the many useful, reliable features and the fact that you don’t sell out, is unmatched.
Thanks for not accepting the cash.
By the way, I DO count on you and check out your “Recommended” website optimization tools. I hope your credibility with subscribers to your service gets you money from these legitimate vendors.
Thank you!
Thanks for not accepting the cash. By the way, I DO count on you and check out your “Recommended” website optimization tools. I hope your credibility with subscribers to your service gets you money from these vendors.
Thank you!
thank you so much for the wonderfull and free service you provide us all
and thank you for saying “no” too
thank you so much for the wonderfuull service you provide us all and thank you too for keeping from predator spyvertiser…
for sensitive website your service is the only one providing safety on top of monitoring…