December 30, 2007
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SiteMeter and specificclick
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4125 hit(s)
I've been using SiteMeter to track usage statistics for the blog. I was just now playing around with Nikhil's Web Development Helper, and I noticed that among all the traffic generated by a request to the blog was a request to the specificlick.net site:
I guess I haven't been paying attention[1], so I hadn't seen this before. A little googling turned up a blog post that broke this story back in April and gives all the gory details (as of then, of course).
Anyway, I took the sitemeter tracker off, and that seems to have killed the specificclick request. However, there is probably a cookie for those weasels, which you might want to kill. And my apologies for inadvertently contributing to this vile practice.
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