Re: Why block web hit counters?

chilly8@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


Why would they want to block the "ping" that many web sites send to
StatCounter, and other "hit counter' service. Its only a few hundred
bytes, and allowing the pings to go through to the various hit-counter
services are not going to be that much of an impact on the network,


But to the user. Such counters are stupid advertisement and thus an annoyance to the user.
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