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It was important enough to be in the news so any laymen should be concerned and stay away for awhile until its safe. I think that is a fair statement.
Dear Adam and Domain Name News,
This is Ron James, webmaster of NamePros. I understand the need to boost
ratings, but your âNamePros Gets Outtedâ headline smacks of overly-sensational
journalism.
If you read the study that you are basing this article, it says (as Acro
rightly pointed out) that NamePros is included due to our use of Feedjit.
Feedjit is a traffic stats program we have been using as an alternative to
Google Analytics. I have never gotten any kind of access to a userâs browsing
history through this service or any others. The stats are in real time,
but are otherwise fairly usual.
According to the most recent TechCrunch story there are there are 530,000
sites using the same service. http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/07/feedjit/
The research study only included the top 50,000 ranked Alexa sites. I was
unaware that NamePros would end up being the top ranked Alexa site using Feedjit
(after Feedjit itself) or that our use of Feedjit would get us âouttedâ on
Domain Name News for something we do not do.
Is our choice of stats program is really that newsworthy? If so, I look
forward to being âouttedâ on my choice of domain registrar or what hosting
company we use for our servers.
But in all seriousness, if there are legitimate privacy issues with our site
or services we use, I will be happy to address them here on this blog, on
NamePros, or privately by email. My email address is
rj{at}namepros.com
Sincerely,
Ron James
NamePros.com
@DomainBuyer
i visit dnf about 10-50 times a day.
browser history sniffing
In addition to ads based on interest categories, Google allows advertisers (including Google) to show you ads based on your previous interactions online, such as visits to advertisersâ websites. For example, someone who visited the website of an online sporting goods store can receive ads about special offers from that store.
Slacker. You can do better
I am working on that lol
hmmmm/// fortunately , had removed all my personal details , except the ID few months back!! was it intuition?Two words in the title sum up the entire situation and forum - NamePros = Fiasco
From my perspective regarding Ron James and Namepros:
Ron has always acted professionallly towards Dnforum and me and I appreaciate that.
Ron has now stated they will be removing the offending code and this will resolve the issue.
I don't think it's fair to blame Nampros for this since it was just stats codes causing the harm that I am sure Ron was unaware of.
Comment from Ron James on dnn.
Ron James
December 13, 2010 @ 1:25 pm EDT
Feedjit has yet to address this, therefore we will be taking our business elsewhere for traffic stats.
Is it just me or did this thread become all italicized suddenly?
Yeah I see that as well.
Edit: My post is fine. But previous posts are italicized.
oh yeah. It's back to italicized. Admins are probably working on it. The profile seems to be getting fixed.
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