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Alexa gives you information about the sites you visit.


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A healthy community is built on trust and open information.

Who owns this site and how do I contact them?
Do people like this site?

How much traffic does this site get?

Are there other sites I should visit instead?

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Alexa learns from people. The more people use it, the better it gets!

No way, i dont want any toolbar, the only toolbar that i would accept to install would be the google bar, and anyway, i use Firefox, way better than Internet Shite.

I showed my support by donating.

i aint installing this either, also like joey, using firefox...

i would read

http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm

i also use Firefox ! Internet Exploser is shit

For all the people who will soon be calling this "spyware" it is not as detailed in a link further up this thread. By the way Alexa is as much spyware as a default IE install which sends the same information to MSN rather then Alexa. While I dislike installing toolbars the cost of running the site must be covered somehow and this is better then having millions of popups.

i installed it , since i didnt donate..YET

Yeah...Alexa is spyware...anyone knows that, ah well..I'm also on firefox here...IE blows goats.

lorick...read the site linked above: http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm. ALEXA is NOT spyware. And please note that we do NOT have a screenful of popup ads.

Stupid to make your users install software on their systems, that waste valuable RAM.... Be the best PSP site, dont jeopardise it.

Did I miss something?

It sure seemed like an OPTION whether you wanted to install the toobar or not. REALLY f'd up spyware or malware or whatever installs without your knowlege...

So I say thanks but no thanks....

djp the google ads is not givin you enough to host the site or what?

umm..okay I read that...here are a few quotes from that site for the lazy..


"Is Alexa spyware?
Well, no ... probably not. At least not if you haven't deliberately installed some of their software.
The issue is the 'Related Links' feature of IE (pre-XP SP2) which appears as the 'Tools'/'Show Related Links' menu item (and a corresponding toolbar button if you added it from the 'Customize...' link on the toolbar). If you use that feature, IE will contact the Alexa servers, via MSN, to obtain information about other web pages which seem to be related, open an Explorer Bar, and display those (plus adverts and whatnot). Go check the Alexa web site to see if you think that is a good idea (and, just to be clear, I think it's a very sucky idea), or just to double-check that you haven't deliberately or unintentionally or absent-mindedly installed some of their software.

And due to a bug in IE (versions prior to IE6 on XP SP2), you might even transmit (potentially sensitive) URL information if you reload pages long after you close the Explorer Bar, about (even secure HTTPS/SSL) pages for which you didn't request Related Links. More details at Note 4.

But if you don't use that menu or button, Alexa will not hear from you and no spying will take place.

Just to be clear, this feature is 'spyware', if you use it."

Well there ya go....here's some other sites ideas about alexa

"Alexa works as an Internet Explorer toolbar and may track your web browsing and search information." http://www.sculptedcd.com/node/8

"If you run AdAware or some other software to detect and delete spyware from your computer then you will probably find that it detects a registry entry for Alexa after you install Internet Explorer 6 (or any of the IE6 service packs or patches). Your spyware software may offer to delete this entry for you.

The reason why this entry in the registry is detected as spyware is that Alexa software has a reputation (according to some internet sites that I have seen) for being one of the worst spyware offenders on the internet"
http://www.felgall.com/brsie9.htm

To all those people slagging IE off. Try internet explorer 7 its pretty good, built in popup blocker, tabbed browsing, built in search boxes ( like google toolbar ) and its still in beta.

I use firefox at work so i do use both but for home use ive allways used IE; most if not all sites are made for viewing with it.

"Joined: 9-August 05"

4 weeks is a long time huh!

If you don't like something, say so, personal attacks are the last refuge of the ignorant, don't abuse the admins.

Well I'm not installing the toolbar since I don't use IE and don't like any toolbars but people, shut up about it. If you don't like it, don't use it. I'm going to start warning members that complain anymore. If you don't like it there is no reason to post about it, so shut it.

this isnt a matter of cash guys? we dont make no money off you installing a toolbar, alexa is a internet website ranker, they dont give payouts for this crap, and no its not spyware, no one is forcing you guys to install it, if you dont want to then dont, no need to talk crap? atleast we arent offering referral scams or none of that junk.