[Don Joe]

Unrelated question:

Does anyone know when (and *why*) FR began tracking our activities via the "urchinTracker" service at google-analytics.com?

I noticed the URL flashing on my status bar as a page loaded, and I said to myself, naw, it *couldn't* be! But, curious bastard that I am, I took a look at the page's HTML, and there it was -- a javascript invoking the logging/tracking/profiling service.

I'd say "Tell me it ain't so!" -- but it obviously IS so:

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//--][/style]
[/head]
[body link="#e00040" alink="#000099" vlink="#336699" bgcolor="white" text="black"]
No replies.
[script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"]
[/script]
[script type="text/javascript"]
_uacct = "UA-2288668-1";
urchinTracker();
[/script]
[/body]
[/html]

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[lysie]

My first reading of your post with only one cup of coffee, I understood "Unrelated question:"

Second reading...with one cup of coffee .. I thought interesting, but I have no idea why.

[lysie]

Oh and BTW, I could have galloons of coffee and still have no idea why. ;-)

[listenhillary]

Most likely added to track Bill O’Reilly so we can see where exactly he found the hate speech on FR.

[GRRRRR]

FR doesn’t allow any JAVA script execution, what you have there is the GOOOGLE tracking script so they can pin down the websites you go to while in google...I don’t think FR is tracking bupkiss while we’re here...

You can email John Robinson to check, but that’s what I was told once about Java on FR, they plain don’t allow it because it’s so squirrely...

[Global2010]

What do you mean tracking?