BlogCounter.com

I had been hearing from my friends that there were pop-ups opening up every time they went to my blog. At first I didn’t agree cause it never happened with me. The reason was that i always use Firefox with the AdBlock  extension. But when I tried opening the site in IE, the pop-ups did indeed appear.

I have been making a lot of changes to this site, so I went through and started checking all the new Javascript and php files that I had added. One of the new things added was a counter from BlogCounter.com, which was the culprit. I didn’t read the terms and conditions before installing it. It clearly says:

4. Advertisement

4.1 The user agrees to the fading in of advertisement banners, advertisement texts, pop-up windows and pop-down windows during the use of the services provided by Blogcounter.com.

4.2 Blogcounter.com reserves the right to modify the respective advertisement form without prior notification.

So the moral of the story is

• Don’t use counters from BlogCounter.com
• Read the terms and conditions before signing up with a service (something that I never do)