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[owl]

THEY'R IN UR LJ TRAKIN UR STATS

I've just been to the console and set stats disable to 1 like it says in the entry.

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[owl]

The thing that bothered me was that they track where you go to after you leave LJ. ZOMG you went to a site that has a fic with Harry and Ginny having sex at 17—ban time! Paranoid, I know, but I prefer to not be tracked.

[carissa-lynn.livejournal.com]

I don't think they can ban you for that because they won't be able to know it was you...just someone visiting your page.

Where does it say they track where you go when you leave LJ? The only way I think they'd know is if you clicked on a link from LJ. From that post, and the posts here, I don't see that it collects any different information than the stats I use on my sites (which come with the hosting package so there is nothing nefarious going on there) except that it might match it up to your IP.

It's certainly within your rights to be cautious, though, and understand your decision to opt out. I just look at it as nothing you do on the internet is particularly private anyway (you know your ISP keeps up with everything right?), so this announcement doesn't trouble me.

[owl]

I know about the ISP and nothing is really private on the internet, but I can get a new ISP more easily than a new perm account :D I'm just being paranoid, really.

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Well, admittedly it's probably only those pinkos at the Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112248279507797567-Vjb1yq7Q_XKy8jZDQn8BGMiA_KA_20050829.html?mod=tff_article) scaremongering, but this account of Omniture's use of what is, in essence, spyware to aid their corporate customers target their marketing efforts more effectively (which, cutting through the lj_biz flannel, is what's going on here; they're looking to find more effective ways to make money out of us) means that I'm certainly not alone in being concerned about this.

[owl]

I'm not really concerned about getting booted from LJ, I am annoyed at more thirdparty tracking. It's a depressing thought that there are people who spend their lives creating spyware. Hmm, I must take a look at my adbloacker and cookie manager settings again. Hurrah for firefox extensions.