Folks,
A few months back, StatCounter was approached by an advertiser, offered lots of $$$, and asked to include a spyware cookie on all of our member sites…we refused on the spot.
You install StatCounter to track visitors to your site NOT to open yourself and your visitors up to being spied upon by phantom advertising corporations.
It appears, however, that other players in the world of webstats were happy to take up this offer…
We were shocked to discover just today that another well known stats provider is allowing up to 9 cookies to be installed in the browser of every visitor that hits one of their member websites. This means that the provider is making money by transmitting data on you and your visitors to a third party advertiser. Not only that, but to add insult to injury, the cookies are causing the member websites to load very slowly too.
In light of this, StatCounter wants to assure you that we track your visitors for you, only you and not any one else.
Which provider would you prefer??
By the way, welcome to our new blog 😉
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
It’s nice to know that in this cut throat world of Internet Marketing that someone has enought integrity to say NO!
Thank you.
Muito obrigado pelo aviso.
Many thanks for the rigth decision.
JM
Thanks statcounter, I’ve been so pleased with your service ever since I got it.
Any reason why it took so long for me to get this email though? I mean, I see that the original post was made on March 25…here we are a day shy of 3 weeks later, and I just get the message? What’s up with that?
753 X $25.00 = $18,825.00 …not bad!!!
🙂
Thank you for saying NO! 🙂
Thank you!!! 🙂
If you wanted to make money I am sure you would find another way. If not just come straight forward and tell all users of your service that you want to charge so many $$ per year. I would gladly pay.
Thumbs up!!!
Eugene
Thank you for saying NO! It is really great to have folks like you out there who are willing to stand up and say enough is enough! Your product is the best and this just makes it even more so. Thanks for being there and standing up for all of us!
Thank you so much! I feel fine with you!
StatCounter is the best!
Regards,
Pablo
P.S: If you like business, visit me at http://pablo-delgado.blogspot.com. in Spanish
Thank you for say NO! All the best for you!
thanks for having a spine!
your is a fine service, you guys are even humble enough to allow the counter be hidden completely.
i use your service a lot, and i check the recommendeds sometimes too.
kudos!
Thanks for Your “NO” and for the great free service that I support by clicking your advertisment banners. It’s alll about a win-win cooperation. Since using statcounter I have the best oveview about our Podcast Production LDPcast (http://ldpcom.podspot.de) and some other web projects. StatCounter is a great application, easy to use and undrestand. Thanks fpr that, best, Raf
I heard about this a couple of days ago, and if my sources are right, I can tell you who the company are. However, I’ll not name them here, Statcounter might get the blame for letting my comment through.
Thanks guys. Your service is simplicity in its glory as far as counters go.
cookies are NOT spyware. cookies do not allow anybody to spy on anybody. you guys should be ashamed of yourselves for scaring people like that.
Yeah, you rule! Statcounter is the best service available, no doubt!
I have been using statcounter for years and I am so glad you said NO to the bad guys. I don’t actually know what I would do with out you!
Keep up the good work