{"id":858,"date":"2007-04-21T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2007-04-21T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T14:43:00","slug":"why-i-dropped-sitemeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Why I Dropped Sitemeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that you have been checking the graphics on my sidebar, but if you have, you will not longer see Sitemeter&#8217;s little rainbow square.<\/p>\n<p>As this article from Geek News Central states, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeknewscentral.com\/archives\/006955.html\">Sitemeter started planting spyware\/third-party cookies on visitors&#8217; computers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I already had an account with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statcounter.com\">StatCounter<\/a> for a commercial Web project, so I have added my blogs to it. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.statcounter.com\/?p=4\">They say they won&#8217;t use third-party cookies<\/a>. 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