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In defense of counters though -- you're basically paying them in traffic in exchange for the enormous amount of bandwidth, CPU time, and data storage that they use to count your hits. Every time their button loads, you are loading a cgi program on their machine -- then all kinds of javascript data is stored in a huge database, cookies are set and tracked, calculations are made -- and they keep records of your traffic for months -- it takes a lot of resources.
To make an analogy, I'm sure that AP pays CTC a hefty amount of money to count hits -- and a company like Sextracker is doing a hell of a lot more bandwidth, calculations, and database work than CTC will ever do, but they get paid in traffic instead of cash.
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