Ask Shane on Sitemeter Spyware
I haven’t touched much on the Sitemeter/Spyware saga as of late. The original post, which made it to the homepage of Digg and has had more than 15,000 readers since it was published, is now ranking fairly well in search engines and I believe it is keeping the debate alive and well.
I then followed it up with a couple more posts, including a post with the “official” response from the Sitemeter team.
Before we get to Shane’s post, let’s take a look at Sitemeters response.
The chatter in the blogosphere has gotten to the point that we feel we need to go outside of our company blog and set the record straight regarding the SiteMeter utilization of the specificclick.net cookie. We have not addressed any comments in the blogosphere directly until now as we have made an official post on our own blog regarding this matter and have responded to every single email inquiry made directly to us via email and updated our privacy policy.
The problem is, Sitemeter NEVER posted anything about it on their blog. Shane says on his blog that “If they weren’t concerned that people know what was really going on, they’d post it clearly on their blog for all to see.” So true. If you have nothing to hide, then what’s the problem?
And Sitemeter’s post gets worse.
In addition, many of the Internet’s biggest web publishers utilize Specific Media’s technology including Foxnews, CBS, NBC and Time.com.
Well first of all, two wrongs don’t make a right. But put that aside and you still have the Sitemeter team comparing apples to oranges. The sites mentioned that use Specific Media’s tracking cookie’s have them on THEIR OWN SITES. They do not install them on YOUR websites.
That’s what we’re on about.
Anyway, Ask Shane has, by far, the best post on this that I’ve seen so far. I highly recommend you pay him a visit and read the post.
Enjoy!
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