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I hate FeedJIT widget.. do you?
Posted by dsriharsha • 3/23/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Privacy
I think everyone is familiar with the FeedJIT live traffic widget. It is a common fixture these days on every second blog.
I would definitely not like my browsing patterns , search queries etc be made public knowledge. This coupled with the location being made public compromises on the identity of the readers, most of whom might choose to be anonymous for various reasons and they have a right to be..
The Blog administrator may have the right to know his visitor profile.. for which Google Analytics or any such tool is good enough, but the public nature of FEEDJIT bugs me.
It would be better for Blog administrators to remove this widget from their blogs as more often that not, it drives returning visitors away. What are your thoughts?
User Comments
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I've gotten MORE traffic because of it. Each to their own I guess. -
I like mine. It's real nifty when you know which post is the most popular and how they were reffered to the site.-
I am talking specifically of the FEEDJIT live traffic widget. I have no issues with any other.
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That is my feedjit. It gives me key words people have searced, what search engine, etc.
What it does not do is tell me who is at my blog just where they come from.
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I feel the same way. It's a widget that advertsies invasion of privacy that's completely unnecessary and is of no benefit to readers at all. In some cases I think bloggers are just following the pack by using a feedjit. In others I think some bloggers are obsessed with statistical tracking. The feedjit simply duplicates what's already available via any good stats program and constitutes distracting sidebar clutter. In the final analysis feedjits turn me off. -
I have not installed one but i dont think it is that loathsome. If you dont want Feedjit live to show your visit then you can exclude your visit by following the Option button available just below the widget. And as far as the Popular post gadget is concerned it is good to gauge the popularity of any posts on a given day as Shiely says. @timethief dont you reveal something of your privacy? You have more than five hundred friends and i think everyone knows to which area of the world you belong to as that feedjit Live shows. Further, if one visits one's blog having a static IP address then rest assured you are tracked. When one wants to read a content then at least this much privacy should be shared. After that there is nothing one can track and play nuisance for which one wants to remain anonymous. Thanks-
The feedjit provides no information to the blogger that good stats programs do not already provide. The only appreciable difference is that it's yet another piece of distracting "sidebar" tat that's completely necessary.
I do not have a static IP and the location being shown is not where I live. The location changes as the site from which my ISP is providing service changes. Sometimes it says Victoria and sometimes it says Vancouver, Cloverdale, Parksville, Langley, etc. FWIW I do not live in any of the locations being displayed.
I'm currently trying out the real time BC BETA stats program on one of my blogs. It's extremely comprehensive and I recommend that others try it too because it leaves feedjit behind in the dust. The bottom line is that I don't I don't require a feedjit and I don't need to supply feedjit with all that data from my readers.
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When a blog uses the widget the address is available to all in the blogosphere (at least those who use feedjit) and as @SAH says one can get a fair amount of traffic from the url placed. So i dont think it not worth giving a room in the side bar. Tat sorry not that detestable stuff. Lol
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I have set my location in feedjit that whenever i visit a blog having feedjit live it shows my exact location. I dont think if anyone gets the name of my city one can track me. Further the Recent visitors gadget that everyone installs there is a tracking possibility till the blog and about me and much more if one shares the same in blog or blogcatalog profile. In feedjit one cannot micro track like the profile shown in the Recent visitor gadget of blogcatalog or mybloglog that everyone seems to install.
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In all honesty I'm more concerned with Google Maps than feedjit. On Goole maps I have seen our van, my mom's car, and people in the pics. One day I'm sure it will be real time. My feedjit doesn't offer details so I'm not worried about it at all.
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Lol. Google map really a threat and terrorists are using it to their advantage to strike terror, but good for travellers. Have you ever received any traffic from Feedjit Shiley?
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very little.
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Maybe I am ignorant here but...
I have FeedJit and as far as I know I do not know WHO EXACTLY my visitor was. It says a town which I have always assumed to be a nearby town, not necessarily the visitor's home town. That's as close as it gets to telling me about the visitor. It also tells me what website they came from which is still not telling me anything about the person's identity.
Please enlighten my how personal identity is invaded?
If someone could recommend something that tells me how many people each day stop by as well as what words they were using if they came upon my site by doing a search...-
The invasion of personal identity is non existent. The Op says that it scares away the returning visitors that i dont think the truth or reality.
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I'm not likely to return to a blog that has a feedjit widget on it very often, if at all.
Even though I have used the options button offered by feedjit to change the privacy settings, it always reverts upon my next visit.
I'll pass - I don't even like people knowing what state I live in. -
@Anok You've returned to mine a few times
I'm not likely to look or care though unless I get a nasty comment then I'll just use a few explicates in my head. -
Yeah but that's because you're you
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So, I take you looked at the music widjit. -
There's a music widgit? Oh, crap...
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TLC, Destiny's Child, White Snake, Queen, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Cat Stevens, The Doors, Bethoven, Mozart, Guns N Roses, Weird Al, B-52's and lots more... And there is no autoplay
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@ shiley I totally understand what you are saying! That street-view is COOL but it's also scary!!! No one needs to "see" my house like that, nor do they need to "see" the type of car I drive.
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Lol! I did a post myhabitathome.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-habitat-home-taking-little-tour.html which I took the liberty of editing. I live in an apartment at the moment so won't see my house yet...
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I've only seen mapquest maps and my house is just a dark gray rectangle with a white square patio. Looks like lego land. No details to say what kind of cars people drive or anything like that.
Is google maps that detailed when they took their pix???-
maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/ When it asks if you want to see street view click on it. downtown Cleveland, OH is a good place to get pics.
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yeah you have to tell it to show you the "streetview"...It's so much detail that it google actually had to blur out plates on people's cars.
Most HUGE metro areas are done like Chicago, New York, LA, Cleveland, etc. Also other lesser metro areas are done, so chances are your home is there, unless you live in a middle of a cornfield.
Google got these streetview images by paying for someone to drive around the neighborhoods with a camera on the top of the car. We are not in any of the pictures, but we can look up our friends and actually see them getting in their cars etc.
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@Shieley Feedjit is evolving and who knows one day it will be a directory of bloggers like blogcatalog. As far as traffic is concerned some receives a good amount of traffic. Anyway, some people may be scared away but many want to see their photo profile and name of the city and they dont mind to return to blog despite feedjit.
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feedjit feedjit fedjit LOl
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Why bother with feedjit when we BC members can have a comprehensive and detailed stats program from BC that rocks?
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/good-news-bc-members-
My hubby won't pay for it. My hubby is happy w/ completely free. Gotta be a sponsor.
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@Anok really. Are you serious? What about the quality of content? And What do you say about the Recent visitor gadget. I have everything shared my original photograph that is use in Bc, My google talk id, yahooid, my mail address, my mobile no, my date of birth, my school's name, my educational qualification, my job and my employer. I dont care if one mails me. One can search me in google and find all those details spread randomly. Lol
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Yes I am serious.
You will not find any personally identifying information about me on the internet other than general region where I live, an estimation of my age, and the fact that I have a husband and child.
When one is in possession of over 300 pages of threats of violence towards them and their family members for their beliefs...one tends to be cautious. -
I'm also serious about this. The information age has become the age of invasion. I have already had a stalker and like Anok I have given only ballpark information out. In fact I have deliberately chosen to falsify some of it and I created false digital fingerprint trails. I post no images and do not discuss personal stuff on my blogs or name my family members. Luckily I have a relative with both the same first name and last name in the police force, so due to the choices I have made regarding registrations the next stalker is more likely to end up on his doorstep than on mine.
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@shiley there are so many useful services available free. Leave me a shout i will try to guide you to see your hubby's wallet smiling without any extra hole. Lol As feedjit is on the anvil we had rather move on with it.
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i love the feedjit, really do -
i just remove it from my blog-
Good.
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@Sudam08.. I am all for the admin tracking his blog stats.. just don't make them public
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Here's an article that kind of elaborates the same thing.. it's not my blog.. but the views match mine.
shrey-knows.blogspot.com/2008/11/feedjit.html -
feedjit ? oughhh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh
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I had been thinking about adding it, but now I will think twice. -
I just deleted it. I hated it soooo much!-
that's your one good deed for the day
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It's sometimes okay because I can see where my visitors came from but I think I have to delete it now. -
I love it.....
it helps me a lot -
With feedjit .. I will be know which part of world maps there is no my page on there. So I will to work hard to make my page appears.. search for people who live there... and promote my blog. Right now I will trying to reach Africa.. lets take Senegal or South of Africa or maybe Zambia. -
Many Blogger wants to hide their live feedjit window from display without loosing its job, here is the way www.ialwayscapital.com/2009/05/how-to-hide-feedjit-live-stats.html -
I don't hate this gadget. A quick looks shows the country visiting, I don't have the time to look for more. It also keeps undesirables away. The ones who really want to come couldn't care less if their towns are shown or not. The ones who want to 'play' won't use their home computers, that's all. There are hundreds of ways to track, untrack, fox, trick, untrick. -
Good.. I was using that before but i think it is better to use MBL than Feedjit. Although i dnt like both. -
OK, I have been looking for a way to BLOCK Feedjit from seeing you BEFORE you visit a site, not after the fact, it totally bites that you have to tell each and every site (that uses Feedjit) to ignore your browser. I knew there had to be a way to prevent it from seeing your browser before they plastered your location on that website.
This method simply prevents your personal location from being shown, your visit still shows as the country where you reside, and where you came from, the browser and OS you are using, I don't mind that information being public, just don't freaking show the town where I live!
The way to do it is incredibly simple, just go to the place on your browser where you control cookies. Tell your browser to not accept cookies from feedjit.com, this BLOCKS Feedjit from being able to see you in the first place, woo hoo! Take THAT Feedjit! -
You know thanks to this discussion I just removed it.
I mean really I have analytics that gives me more than enough information and I found I felt kinda weird when I visited my blog and saw my country pop up.
Thanks for these views.-
good job
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let's not go chuckin da baby out wit da bathwater folks - its a free link to your blog on someone's elses who also has feedjit - and who might have a much wider audience than you. i frequently visit sites that i link to who have feedjit cause then i get global free publicity. and traffic. priceless. for free! duh. i don't think feedjit violates the privacy laws. get now! get feedjit! get famous!
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