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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]

Yes, people are really freaking out over on the lj_biz post, accusing Sa of data mining, etc.

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Well that might - just might - be because they're using data-mining software (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,383524,00.asp).

The rehview of Omniture SiteCatalyst linked to has the headline "SiteCatalyst Tracts What Web Shoppers Are Doing and promises

Once your site is wired to SiteCatalyst, you can analyse traffic and all kinds of commerce statistics. With a great many default parameters, this package supplies infomation on everything from basics like page views (available from hourly to yearly periods) to referring sites and search engines to in-depth breakdowns of your custo

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Sorry - posted too soon. "customer's browsers". Essentially this tool is too complicated and expensive for the limited ro le we're told it's being deployed for; it promises, according to its makers, real-time analysis on an IP- address level of site "visitor" behaviour.

[owl]

I think data mining was not what I was actually thinking off. Selling your credit card numbers, possibly on Ebay.