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 😉
Great job folks,
Not only by rejecting the offer but also to let know the main issue, that other stat providing services accepted it.
Props !
Nice!. Thanks for saying No. This shows that you people are honest,good folks. keep it up!
That is a very bold step taken in good faith. We still have few people like Allen* – Statcounter owner who is doing this kind of wonderful work selflessly.
May God bless you from different directions!
It is so good to hear of companies sticking to their principals in todays age where money always seems to talk.
Good for you, you provide an excellent service. Keep it up
Thanks for keeping your service clean and honest. It’s appreciated.
Thanks for sticking to your principles!!!
I would be curious to know who the competitor is so that I can avoid them in the future.
Would someone (not from Statcounter) name names, please?
Appreciate it!!
Dena
YAY! love you guys!! stay true!
I wanted to leave my thanks to you all. Lately, several companys want to get money at any price, even sending sh!t, spam and malware to their own customers!
I’m glad that Statcounter decided to stay away of all those things. And I wish all of you well.
Thanks!
Well don, Statcounter! God is proud of you! Not that God has anything against making money but He does not like spying! At all!
We all at ShelleyTheRepublican.com would like to thank you guys for refusing to violate God’s laws!
God bless America,
Shelley The Republican, Shelley Goodman
Thanks for doing the right thing, statcounter!
I’ve been using StatCounter ever since my first website more than a year ago and I find it’s the real deal – it’s free, no hiccups, easy to use, small footprint…and it works. I’m sticking with you guys and thanks for saying “no” to those cookie-seekers. An established set-up like yours wouldn’t be putting this on, would you?
StatCounter, you rock. And, I mean that with as much sincerity as ever I told someone they rocked. StatCounter, listen carefully: you rock. And may you continue to rock ever more.
Thanks so much for standing up for us all! I really appreciate you saying “No!”
Few years back, I took up a free stat-counting service. At first it seems fine and I liked the features. Then after a while I found out the sites that took up this service and my site too, are suddenly slow in loading. Whenever I opened my blogsite, a pop-up will appear. I know right then, that service had now included a spyware.
Angry, I changed to your excellent service. As of now, no complaints. Thank you for being honest in providing us with your service.
Hi,
Well done and Thank you very much. You have demonstrated a very rare ethical quality in this industry. Two thumbs up !! – RainCreatives.
Thank you so much www.statcounter.com for saying NO to selling my information to a third Part. I’m glad I can trust your company. I have been very saticefied with your product and as my business grows, so will my dependence and statcounter.
Dan
Thanks for making stat counter safe for all of us.
Thanks Stat Counter
We dont need any more cookies living off our pc”s
The best to you
Gene
Thank you for having the integrity to stand up to this kind of garbage. You guys will have all of my future business. Once I get up to speed with my site and add others, you have my word that this is where I’ll be.
Hi StatCounter,
You guys have been strong enough to sya “No” and not yielded to any advertisers who needs a ride on your strong back, you are not weak Statcounter and thats what we like to work with strong backbone esp when we use your FREE web analytics for all our clients to show them traffic on daily/hourly basis even though we plug Google analytics …
Keep it going StatCounter.
Advice: Why don’t you guys tie up with companies like WebCEO and offer analytics FREE service to all WebCEO clients, WebCEO is a grt SEO tool who also offers FREE SEO services and you guys can convert few of them to real leads at later point. It will be a Win-Win situation and people like us can benefit from such services.
Regards
Harsha