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 😉
http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/006955.html
So what is sitemeter doing other than a standard cookie? There is no problem with this cookie unless more than one website uses it on a person’s computer. Is this really what sitemeter is getting all the money for? Is sitemeter the culprit?
Glad to hear that there is still some integrity 🙂 Hope Statcounter will continue to maintain their stance with regards to privacy and cookie and financial lures in the future.
That’s a good news for me.
Thanks so much for not getting drawn in by the offer of big money! You guys certainly have class, and I appreciate that greatly!
Thanks for thinking of us and not your wallet. Keep up the excellent work.
I don’t get how placing a cookie on a user is significantly different than selling logs. Does statcounter not sell logs either?
http://paretologic.com/resources/definitions.aspx?remove=specificclick%20cookie
It is seemingly just a tracking cookie, but I guess it can be used in bad ways. Does it really install adware and spyware on the system? Is this the company paying sitemeter?
By the way, although it may seem noble to not name names and not sluring your competition, maybe you are leaving the company in question unnamed so that anybody who uses any other company will be scared into using you.
Yippee! Some who thinks about their customers and not making money.
Kindest regards
lasensuelle-Lingerie
Thank you statcounter
After 10 years online you are the best free stat service around to my experience.What is more, I review my stats more often through your website rather than through my built-in scripts
Thanks for making the good choice, word will be spread and customers will come.
P.
That’s the spirit! Yea! I like folk who refuse to sell their soul for money! I received some strange offers my self a few times, of course not such big as StatCounter did, but they are all out of the game 😉 Keep play fair! Congratulations!
Specificclick.net is spyware, but it seems to just be a tracking cookie. I don’t know if it installs tracking info to the registry or really slows the sites.
Oh! And it even comes up on my wordpress blog. I am removing my counter from my site and will instruct my brother as well. I guess we’ll use statcounter. Thanks for saying no!
Oh, now I see…. Without security, you get specificclick.net cookies with sitemeter. Shame on them!
Hi StatCounter team. I am mostly using sitemeter, so I would like to know if they are really the people putting out all the spyware. The culprits must be exposed. On my wordpress blog, javascript isn’t allowed, but my brother has two blogs and uses javascript in the blogger code. It doesn’t make the page load slowly, so I don’t know. Please name names! We all know that it isn’t just to slur others! We have very tight spyware and cookie control, so I can’t see if we get cookies after visiting… Other people posting here mentioned sitemeter, but can you please confirm?
Just wanted to say thank you for saying NO to the spying cookies.
Can’t believe even WIRED has the evil ones (I only see if I surf with an ancient computer that can’t automattically say no to the AdSense cookie requests).
Really respect and appreciate all that you do.
Thanks again;-)
Thanks StatCounter 🙂
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Site Meter installed spyware?
Oh no!
Thanks statcounter.com
Stat Counter 4 EVA!
Thanks Stat Counter you are definitely the best stat provider I have recommended you to all of my friends so they should be signing up soon.
you guys are the best and I’m never going to switch provider for fear of getting spy ware installed on my site!
Thanks again! 🙂