While troubleshooting my recent GChat connectivity woes, I was examining and scrutinising every little corner of my FireFox browser. Gradually I came to notice that while surfing my blog pages, mysterious calls to ‘dg.specificclick.net’ were being made.
First reaction was: spyware!!
I Googled it, and traced it back to… Sitemeter, a popular statistics tracking service that I have been using for years. Apparently, they had started using the specificclick.net tracking cookie without informing us users. Following some common advice, I promptly removed the code from my blog.
And… ta-da. Pages are loading much faster too (apologies to my friends who have complained that my blog was draaaging, but hey – hurray for decontamination)!
