Yet on these very same outraged blogs, many of us are collecting a suspicious amount of info about our visitors. I don't really want bloggers to know that I visited their site and what I looked at, even if they can only see my domain (and so, in many cases, guess it's me). I think that's creepy. I protest.
I have a site meter on this blog, but it collects no individual data, just statistics about average visits. Rest assured, your privacy is protected on Yappa Ding Ding!
Update: After discovering (thanks Tom) that my site meter does collect individual data, and even makes it available to anyone looking at my site, I removed it.
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Fair enough - but I can't see a way in Sitemeter to disable the collection of some of that material. How do you go about suppressing the collection of individual data?
When I set up site meter, I set it up so that all I get is an email with average stats and no details. I believe this is the simplest setup they offer. Since I did it over a week ago, I can no longer remember any other details... ;-)
By the way, I find it interesting that the number of people who visit my site has stayed pretty steady (at a whopping 20/day) even over the past several weeks when I haven't had time to write much. However, my Technorati ranking of how many people reference my URL has soared from 200,000th a couple of months ago to today's score of 47,236. Whooooeee!
Click the Sitemeter icon at the bottom of your front page. It takes you to an online report: click details at the left, and you see a list of IP numbers or domains of people who have visited this site. Someone from rogers.com was there at 4:16 and as it is now 4:18 I guess that's me.
Unfortunately, not so private. I'd be interested to hear if you can disable it. I agree with your sentiment - a little icon that we could post on blogs showing "no big brother here" would be a good idea.
Oh, dear. By adding a site meter I have made it possible not only for me to monitor my visitors, but also for my visitors to monitor my visitors.
This blogspot site has links to a bunch of alterntive types of site meter. I'm going to check them out. It used to be that web sites just had a simple counter; that would be okay, although I like the daily total thing.
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42078&topic=8931
Thanks, Tom!
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