[kkennett]

In the last couple of days, I now have to click twice when going from a post back to the unread post list. Upon the first click, my browser says opening http://dg.specificclick. blah blah / then reference to my list. Upon clicking again, this goes away and straight back to the list. Upon researching this cookie, there appears to be some legitimate uses. Thus my question: is this a cookie legitimately set by this website or not?

 

[tony218]

In the last couple of days, I now have to click twice when going from a post back to the unread post list. Upon the first click, my browser says opening http://dg.specificclick. blah blah / then reference to my list. Upon clicking again, this goes away and straight back to the list. Upon researching this cookie, there appears to be some legitimate uses. Thus my question: is this a cookie legitimately set by this website or not?

ME TOO.

 

[ber950]

ditto

 

[Rammstein]

I believe this is to track site statistics.

 

[Wiley]

And Me.

I've run adaware, spybot s&d, avast with no luck getting rid of it. Next is to add it to the blocked list in internet options/privacy.

 

[slabertooch]

just add it to your HOST file, that should block it from tracking you, unless it's server side.

 

[Gunstar1]

Quick answer is, I don't know.

I will check and see what is going on, but it is not something I knowingly added. I know the forum generates a cookie, I don't think sitemeter uses cookies to track my site.

 

[Gunstar1]

Seems to have been an unauthorized cookie coming across the sitemeter link.

I removed the sitemeter tracker from the forum, see if that fixes things. If it does I am going to send a rather unpleasant email to sitemeter.

 

[ber950]

Seems to have fixed it.

 

[tony218]

Seems to have fixed it.

me too

 

[Gunstar1]

I sent and email to sitemeter, nowhere in their privacy info does it say they will push a 3rd party cookie to track this website.

It seems to only appear in the forum, it does not appear in the rest of the site.

 

[kkennett]

Thank you so much for looking into that.

 

[Gunstar1]

Seems to have sped the site up as well.

 

[slabertooch]

Yeah i noticed that this morning, site was running very slow, sometimes causing my browser to time out. Thought it was on my end though.

 

[tony218]

mine is doing it again.

 

[Gunstar1]

crap, I was hopeing they had cut that crap out. looks like they only stopped for a short time.

 

[Gunstar1]

I see the sitemeter cookie, I don't see the specificlick one though.

 

[tony218]

it could be on my end i check and let you know

 

[slabertooch]

Yea it's back, it queries it really quick so it's hard to see, also there's something called bear.he.net that gets called up too, not sure if it's your server or not.

something from static.theplanet.com is hitting up my network in the TCP protocol.

 

[Gunstar1]

Yea it's back, it queries it really quick so it's hard to see, also there's something called bear.he.net that gets called up too, not sure if it's your server or not.

something from static.theplanet.com is hitting up my network in the TCP protocol.

Bear is this site's server. no idea about theplanet.com

Oh well I guess it was too much to hope they would quit sending it.