Folks,
A few months back, StatCounter was approached by an advertiser, offered lots of $$$, and asked to include a spyware cookie on all of our member sites…we refused on the spot.
You install StatCounter to track visitors to your site NOT to open yourself and your visitors up to being spied upon by phantom advertising corporations.
It appears, however, that other players in the world of webstats were happy to take up this offer…
We were shocked to discover just today that another well known stats provider is allowing up to 9 cookies to be installed in the browser of every visitor that hits one of their member websites. This means that the provider is making money by transmitting data on you and your visitors to a third party advertiser. Not only that, but to add insult to injury, the cookies are causing the member websites to load very slowly too.
In light of this, StatCounter wants to assure you that we track your visitors for you, only you and not any one else.
Which provider would you prefer??
By the way, welcome to our new blog 😉
Thank you !
Good to know that we as the member of statcounter are safe 🙂
Great Job. You guys do have value over lots $$$. And those $$$ will keep on flowing long term, with this kind of higher attitude. I feel lucky and proud to use your services.
Excelente, gracias por brindarnos este servicio y por su integridad. Escribo en español por que veo que puedes leerlo, Me alegro que traten de protegernos, ya que ultimamente he visto muchas webs que tienen mensajes emergentes, donde se instalan virus en nuestras pc, es demasiado fastidioso y pues peligros.
Gracias
you guys are awesome. props to you! God bless!
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This is why StatCounter is the BEST stat program! Thanks.
Thanks a lot for not giving our information. Statcounter rocks…!!!!
Thank you StatCounter its great to know you care about your users and are NOT just a money making scam. 🙂
THank you
I appreciate the free statcounter alot too by the way, you guys are the best!
I love you guys! Thank you! 😀
Thanks so much Stat Counter, and great to see you have a blog!!
It is really hard to say no. but You did it.
Thanks you again StatCounter.
this is my first posting and this site i think is very good thank you
I’m one of those who believes what she reads on the Internet (!)
So I believe almost all you say in your email and in this blog post. But I still have a hard time believing that you were shoked to learn another stats provider a deal similar to what you refused. I would not be surprised at all if a free stat counter provider would do so, as they say nothing in free in this world! If they did it to their paying members that would be another matter though. So I appreciate the fact that you don’t add annoying cookies in your counter code because I would have to go and find another counter….
Your service is good and convenient, not perfect but certainly one of the best!
nice of you to say NO.
i am happy i opted for statcounter.
Thanks for saying no! I changed over from another counter becouse they started alowing pop-up adds. They claimed that they were small and would not interfear with the site, but some of them covered my hole site!
Unfortinatly it toke me four months to find out due to my own pop-up blocker software. I believe it cost me a lot of return customers.
Thanks agian!!!!
Thanks guys!
thank you for standing firm on what is right.