Re: My Ad Block String is Unstoppable

Jesse the K <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:48:41 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.omniweb
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mar 20, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Jared Earle wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Jesse the K  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>  I'm confident that y'all will point out the downsides to this
>>  approach, but in the meantime, enjoy.
>
> I'll be the first. :)
>
> Urchin is part of Google Analytics, the google webstats thing.
> Blocking it is like typing "Google" into google search: you can break
> ... the ... internet!


Alright, literal-minded me did this, and aside from

> about 198,000,000 for google with Safesearch on. (0.04 seconds)


the net's still running.

Is there a reason I should care about google's webstats, if I'm not  
running the site, just viewing it?
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Jesse the K -- Madison WI USA -- [email protected]
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