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Why is Barbelith running Google Analytics?

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

00:42 / 11.07.06

Just curious. I have a Javascript blocker running in Firefox, and it always pops up. But y'all aren't running Google Ads or anything, so... why?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:57 / 11.07.06

Yeah, we're running Google Ads. It's a thing. They're turned off if you're logged in though.

semioticrobotic

02:26 / 11.07.06

Normally that information would be here, but the thread content seems to have vanished.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

08:59 / 11.07.06

Aha! I guess I forgot about the ads after I registered.

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11:33 / 11.07.06

I'd often wondered about that. I too had forgotten the ads. Thanks for clearing it up.

semioticrobotic

12:16 / 11.07.06

The other thing you might be noticing is the stat tracker, that loads (regardless of membership) on every page. Just look at the bottom lefthand corner of every page to find a miniscule square.

Sniv

12:32 / 15.07.06

That's facinating. It looks like around 8000 people searched for porn and ended up here. Where are we keeping this secret porno stash?

Spyder Todd 2008

14:24 / 15.07.06

We don't have a porn stash. Probably we don't, I mean. But if we had a secret stash, it would most assuredly not be in the super secret Erotica Forum THAT DOES NOT EXIST. Nope. Don't even look for it, just underneath the Creation Forum, every 45 seconds. It won't be there, I assure you.

gridley

15:34 / 15.07.06

Hardcore hir-on-hir naked huggling.

semioticrobotic

11:06 / 16.07.06

Nude Badger XXX

COG

21:55 / 15.08.06

Who are the two people from Antarctica who are checking us out?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

06:09 / 16.08.06

Isn't 'porn' the search term that brings up everything in a search engine's database? Even cbeebies comes up on a search for porn, although probably that's because someone somewhere has written a Balamory fic where Miss Hoolie and Archie get it on...

Evil Scientist

09:24 / 16.08.06

Three-way Barbe-crush action! Non-stop!

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

00:52 / 23.10.06

Just something I noticed today: the stat tracker, when you click it now, says that the site is in violation of the terms and conditions of the tracker, and the reports are not available.

semioticrobotic

00:56 / 23.10.06

From the warning page:

NOTE: The report pages of the Free Tracker are indeed open to your site audience, only editing is password protected. Hiding the button, sizing down the button or removing the link is NOT allowed.

My guess would be that we're violating the terms by "sizing down the button" in an attempt to "hide the button."

Tom Coates

16:39 / 23.10.06

Yeah I should probably do something about that at some point. I've got analytics installed, but completely never check it. I probably should.

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