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I've been wondering about a conspiracy theory regarding free stats counters.
there's a reason they are free. Here's my conspiracy theory. Surfer visits your site. the counter loads & tons of cookies are dropped into the surfers cache. Some of these cookies could be of the same sponsors you promote. surfer clicks join link on your page, buys membership, counter gets credit for the sale, not you.
What made me think this? I emptied my cache. Visited one of my OWN pages & know my own page does not drop cookies, but damn it, the cache had around a hundred or so sponsor cookies in it.. fucking put there by the counter!!!
OH, and message boards do this too?????
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