Comments on: Official KISSmetrics Response to Data Collection Practices

By: Gnoop

Gnoop — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:28:54 +0000

@ndrcvrngl If you don’t want to be tracked, you’re using the wrong browser. There’s a unique identifier built into Chrome. Use Chromium or a non-Google Chromium build like SRWare Iron.

By: X

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 02:06:18 +0000

The “opt out” method from this horrible, horrible company’s Zombie Cookies only works if you accept their cookie. It’s like taking “The Number of The Beast.” Hopefully the authorities will break it up, arrest the perpetrators and send them back to whatever Godforsaken Hell spewed them forth.

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By: Graceland

Graceland — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:09:02 +0000

Pefrect shot! Thanks for your post!

By: ashkan soltani

ashkan soltani — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:05:43 +0000

interesting data point:

Online Advertiser Settles FTC Charges ScanScout Deceptively Used Flash Cookies to Track Consumers Online

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/11/scanscout.shtm

just sayin’

By: KISSmetrics, Hulu Hit With Privacy Suit | All About HiTech News

KISSmetrics, Hulu Hit With Privacy Suit | All About HiTech News — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:11:14 +0000

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By: PussDaddy

PussDaddy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:40:47 +0000

Also I find it interesting that my name and address along with a google map to my house ended up on Spokeo.com who is a plaintiff in this lawsuit as you can see here

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/complaint.pdf

not too soon after I visited Kissmetric’s site and blogged about this. I google my name all the time, sometimes as much as every other day, and this site never showed up until after I blogged about this KISSmetrics crap. I am aware that this is all public information anyway and that it can be found on many sites where you can get it for free or pay to get it, but I find it odd that it ended up on Spokeo.com when it did which was right after becoming aware of this controversy and blogging about it. I had to contact them and ask to be taken off. Did this happen because I often go to sites where I have to fill in my name and address for some reason and your cookie bullshit is tracking where I go and what I do?

Also I think I have your crap on my computer as it has been running very, very slow. I also find that stuff I have looked at on one site will pop up in ads on other sites which only recently started happening with such regularity as to be realy noticeable and sort of spooky.

You did answer my email about where the opt out thing is I admit, but like ndrcvrngl I find it about as useless as a nun at an orgy because who is going to implant some cookie of yours on their computer now, and if they do won’t it be deleted every time you clear your cache forcing you to reinstall it every time?

Why you couldn’t put the opt out link where people can find it is beyond me. Why you think it’s ok to implant something undeletable on people’s computers that they can’t get rid of and that effects how their computer runs is also beyond me.

By: ndrcvrngl

ndrcvrngl — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:57:02 +0000

I found the opt out, after quite the search. Unfortunately, if you clear your cache after your done browsing (like I do), then every time you get back online, you have to opt out again. Every. Single. Time. If it wasn’t a ‘zombie cookie’, then please explain why every site I would go to would have the same exact ads of something I had searched for or looked at previously? Until I read about zombie cookies (and put an ad blocker on my browser), it was a minor annoyance. Now, knowing what I do, it’s ridiculous. I clear my cache for a reason – I do a lot of research and web searching as a blogger. I also find it an invasion of privacy. At least I had the option to opt in or not with Google Analytics when I downloaded Chrome. With the sites that KissMetrics works with/for, I was never given a choice. Not cool man, not cool.

Here’s the link to the opt out button, as well as the information as to what it has to do, since KissMetrics seems to be making it difficult:
http://www.kissmetrics.com/user-privacy

By: PussDaddy

PussDaddy — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:49:48 +0000

So with all your technological/legalese bloviation you did here why is it too taxing to say in plain fricking English how to opt out and where to go to do it, especially as Chad Vavra pointed out that you have no search bar to find it? If everything was ok and legal with the way you were doing things then why did you have to make all these changes? Just answer these questions please or we will have to conclude you are full of it. Thanks.

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:13:14 +0000

Gosh Alex, perhaps you might have put a filter on your own mouth before making a public embarrassment not only yourself but of your company. God forbid you discreetly might have pulled Susan aside and shown a little respect to her…and yourself. But no…just couldn’t pass up that opportunity to make yourself feel like a big shot, right? So typical.