tracking urls showing up on my browsers since I installed wordpress

  • bstharp

    (@bstharp)


    14 years ago

    I have begun to notice various tracking company urls showing up ever since I redirected my domain to self-host it, and installed wordpress on it for my site’s theme. It may not be wordpress, but I’m wondering what the heck to do here. I have seen pixel.quantserve.com, tracking.pubmatic.com, b.scorecardresearch.com. I have gone to those websites and you can opt-out. But that puts an opt-out cookie in your browser and if you dare to delete cookies/empty cache or anything you just might find them back again. I have. Are these from wordpress offering to let companies track our webuse for marketing purposes? They are all marketing research firms. Does anyone know if where I could find out whether this tracking code is being inserted by wordpress?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    I assure you, WordPress contains no such tracking cookies, but that doesn’t mean that a plugin or theme isn’t providing them.

    You might want to try disabling plugins and switching themes until you find the problem.

    Thread Starter bstharp

    (@bstharp)

    Thanks, for the assurance, James. I’m trying to sort out the source of all of this and it’s good to know that WP is not it! Now on to others. I can’t switch themes – OMG it would be a mess to do that right now, I’m live with the site. But I’ll check out Graph Paper Press, who I bought it from – and GoDaddy, and the Photoshelter plug-in I installed…so many left to check! Thanks for the quick reply.

    The WordPress.com Stats Plugin (developed by Automattic) is injecting the Quantserve script (with no disclosure, I might add).

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