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Apologies To My Readers
I just discovered that Sitemeter has been putting tracking cookies for realmedia.com on my visitors' machines. There may be some others as well.
I went in, cleared cookies, refreshed Transterrestrial, and the Realmedia cookies showed up again. I'm going to quit using Sitemeter, but I need to do a little research and figure out what to switch to for stats checking. In the meantime, you might want to block cookies from realmedia.com (and the others mentioned in the link, such as specificclick.net) if you don't want them selling your browsing habits without your permission.
Posted by Rand Simberg at May 13, 2007 12:57 PM
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No problem, good software seems to take care of all of that..mostly automatically.
Robert
Posted by Robert G. Oler at May 13, 2007 04:02 PM
Google Analytics? - I've seen some info from some sites we have, and boy is it comprehensive! (loads of marketing phrases I'd never heard of before...)
Posted by Tony (UK) at May 13, 2007 04:36 PM
Is there no end to Real's perfidy?
Realplayer is bad enough.
Posted by Sigivald at May 14, 2007 11:03 AM
Thanks for the heads-up on this, Rand. I'm just took sitemeter off of all my sites because of this, and replaced it with statcounter.
Posted by Ed Minchau at May 14, 2007 10:16 PM
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