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Did Sitemeter sell out to Spyware?

conservablogs.com — The writer had been indeed able to confirm, on two of his own sites, that Sitemeter is sending specific click cookies onto websites hosting the counter. He immediately removed the counter and now has all of his sites using StatCounter or Google Analytics.

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  • HHP2K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Statcounter got the same offer, and they rejected it. They told all of their users about it.
  • ccheath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i've never trusted sitemeter... i've been blocking their cookies for years
  • ericodom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Still no word from the Sitemeter blog. E-mail is still unanswered as well.

    Sounds like Sitemeter is silent on this so far. Not a word.
  • MakiMaki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks for the information Eric.. I'm definitely going to remove sitemeter.

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