sitemeter.com

[gstelmack]

Well, whatever this "tracking.sitemeter.com" site is that this forum wants me to log into tonight, you are now blocked.

[Logan]

Saw it on my trip here about an hour ago (on each page view), nothing now though.

edit: Take that second part back. How do I block it on Firefox?

[EagleFan]

SOB, now I'm getting it.

[Grover]

Haven't seen it once on Chrome.

[bhlloy]

I entered "user" and "password" and it took me to some secret mod forum. You should see how many candid Pumpy photos there are over there

[stevew]

Showing up on my IPhone

[DaddyTorgo]

Blocked it awhile back with Ghostify.

[RomaGoth]

Glad I wasn't the only one getting that popup.

[kingfc22]

Showing up on my IPhone

On my iPad as well

[RomaGoth]

Blocked it awhile back with Ghostify.

What is Ghostify?

[SackAttack]

Popped up when I came to the forum just now. Saw the thread and wondered what gstelmack was up to NOW.

Popped up again when I clicked the thread. Canceled out both times, haven't seen it since.

[RomaGoth]

Figured out what it is, just not sure why now all of a sudden it is showing up with that stupid authentication box. Never saw it before today.

Site Meter - Counter and Statistics Tracker (http://www.sitemeter.com/)

From the website:

Site Meter Can Provide the Answers! Site Meter's comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With our detailed reporting you'll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more.

[DaddyTorgo]

What is Ghostify?


Errr...Ghostery. My bad.

http://www.ghostery.com/

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="888"><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Detect

</td> <td valign="top"> Learn

</td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> Control

</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodycopy" rowspan="2" valign="top"> Ghostery™ sees the invisible web - tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity. </td> <td class="bodycopy" rowspan="2" valign="top">After showing you who's tracking you, Ghostery™ also gives you a chance to learn more about each company it identifies. How they describe themselves, a link to their privacy policies, and a sampling of pages where we've found them are just a click away.</td> <td class="bodycopy" colspan="2" valign="top">Ghostery™ allows you to block scripts from companies that you don't trust, delete local shared objects, and even block images and</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodycopy" valign="top" width="139"> iframes. Ghostery puts your web privacy back in your hands. </td></tr></tbody></table>

[Maple Leafs]

Sitemeter is just a site that provides traffic data on your site, like a poor man's Google Analytics.

In the "Day at the office" theme I see the sitemeter icon at the bottom of the screen (like on any site it's been set up for) but don't get the popup window you guys are mentioning.

[RomaGoth]

Errr...Ghostery. My bad.

http://www.ghostery.com/

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="888"><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Detect

</td> <td valign="top"> Learn

</td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"> Control

</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodycopy" rowspan="2" valign="top"> Ghostery™ sees the invisible web - tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity. </td> <td class="bodycopy" rowspan="2" valign="top">After showing you who's tracking you, Ghostery™ also gives you a chance to learn more about each company it identifies. How they describe themselves, a link to their privacy policies, and a sampling of pages where we've found them are just a click away.</td> <td class="bodycopy" colspan="2" valign="top">Ghostery™ allows you to block scripts from companies that you don't trust, delete local shared objects, and even block images and</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodycopy" valign="top" width="139"> iframes. Ghostery puts your web privacy back in your hands. </td></tr></tbody></table>

Thanks. I looked it up and found Ghostery instead but figured that's what you meant.

[gstelmack]

Ghostery sounds interesting, but the "free" part always sounds fishy to me. What do they get out of it?

[Draft Dodger]

Sitemeter is just a site that provides traffic data on your site, like a poor man's Google Analytics.

In the "Day at the office" theme I see the sitemeter icon at the bottom of the screen (like on any site it's been set up for) but don't get the popup window you guys are mentioning.

yeah, there must be something broken somewhere because sitemeter isn't a shady thing.

[Ben E Lou]

We've had the Sitemeter widget on FOFC for roughly 4 years. Operation Sports had me put it on the site back before they acquired it in summer 2008, to gauge traffic. I haven't touched it since then, so I have no idea why it would suddenly cause pop-ups for some people. *shurg*

[DaddyTorgo]

Weird...I just got the sitemeter popup for the first couple times on my work computer (use IE here, don't have any popup blockers or ad-aware or anything).

[Danny]

Ghostery sounds interesting, but the "free" part always sounds fishy to me. What do they get out of it?

Your soul

[Buccaneer]

Been getting on every page refresh since yesterday. Very annoying.

[Young Drachma]

Never seen it. Ad block rules?

[Autumn]

I started getting this yesterday too, but haven't seen it yet today.

[CrimsonFox]

viruses? :(

[Desnudo]

Ghostery sounds interesting, but the "free" part always sounds fishy to me. What do they get out of it?

a list of all the brazilian shemale sites that have your bank of america login.

[SackAttack]

We've had the Sitemeter widget on FOFC for roughly 4 years. Operation Sports had me put it on the site back before they acquired it in summer 2008, to gauge traffic. I haven't touched it since then, so I have no idea why it would suddenly cause pop-ups for some people. *shurg*

I did notice it popping up other sites, too.

I'd bet something broke on an update they rolled out.

[RendeR]

Never seen it. Ad block rules?


This.

[dawgfan]

This.
I use AdBlock and still saw it (albeit only once) yesterday.

[Autumn]

Me too. I suppose if you have pop-ups completely eliminated, you won't get it, but that's some AdBlock-only feature. It certainly isn't shutting it down automatically outside of that.

[RomaGoth]

I use AdBlock and still saw it (albeit only once) yesterday.

Ghostery takes care of it.

[RendeR]

The only thing I really run to block anything at all is adblock and I've never once seen popups or weird ads or anything of the like.

I did get them when i forgot to add adblock onto the new machine right away once...the things people will put up with frighten me.

[sabotai]

I use AdBlock and still saw it (albeit only once) yesterday.

Me too. After I got it a few times, I set NoScript to block it.

[Marc Vaughan]

Me too. After I got it a few times, I set NoScript to block it.

I use nothing clever - just Chrome and I've never seen it, I reckon its something displayed by your ad-blockers to gain revenue ;)

[sabotai]

Far be it for me to dispute your conclusion reached after a study involving a sample size of 1, but I'm fairly certain it's not that.

[RomaGoth]

Far be it for me to dispute your conclusion reached after a study involving a sample size of 1, but I'm fairly certain it's not that.

:lol: