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 😉
NO WAY! Like George Stark said, this attitude should be taken on the record, and provides another reason why we will allways choose this kind of services.
Thanks StatCounter.
Hi, fellas!
Thank you for saying no! No spy cookies and your atittude, are the main reasons why I use StatCounter!
Thanks a lot!
Mr. Stark
Thanks for keeping things clean around here. =)
Great !
Thanks for remainign the best and the most careing stat counter around
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Thanks a lot
Its really nice to know about this, thank you for making the right choice!
This is great to know. It’s always good to have trust. Who is the other stats provider who excepted their offer?
It is refreshing to know that someone is looking out for others instead of just the bottom line.
I love you, Stat Counter!!
Nice to see there are still some traces of integrity on the web.
Thanks for letting me know. For those who skip to the end, here’s the advice about how to find out if your stat-counting service is using cookies to track your visitors:
“One way you can find out is to delete all the cookies in your browser. (In Firefox you go to tools – options – show cookies and click ‘remove all cookies’. Other browsers are similar.)
Then visit the webpage you think may be installing spy cookies.
Check your cookies again and you’ll be able to see how many were created by your last visit. ”
Perhaps you should make this piece of advice a separate blog post?
Thanks.
Brilliant site! happy to be here. corner can fetch round
Awesome job StatCounter! You have always been (and continue to be) THE BEST! Just say ‘yes’ to StatCounter!
Thanks! I guys made the right decision for the short and long term! I already recommend Statcounter to many website owners and we all love it. This just adds one more reason to choose Statcounter over the others. I think that in the long run adding spyware is a poor business decision and you guys made the right decision for your customers and yourselves! Good job!
Sure, these guys were sick mindlesss genetically damaged bastards. But there are thousands of them. Knowing that statscounter doesn’t plat cookies on your sites is nice. But this doesn’t solve the problem of clients who are infested with cookies already. Their computers are slow already.
Thank You for being honest and trustworthy!
Muchas gracias!! 😀
Statcounter-The best service I have ever found for my website. I love all the features you guys give us, and thanks for just saying NO!
We all know how important trust is on the web. It is great to know that at least one (free) service provider will support us end users in that effort. Thanks, StatCounter!
It doesn’t surprise me that you refused their offer, after all, you are the best stats people on the whole web.
Congrats… Keep up the great work, stats guys!