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muku
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« on: December 24, 2008, 06:46:16 AM »

What is it, and what is it doing in our forums? Lips Sealed
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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2008, 06:56:44 AM »

eh?

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« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2008, 10:58:35 AM »

It's an Audience Profile... seems to be profiling audience Beer!

Sorry! Durr...?
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« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2008, 11:07:54 AM »

and it find this out how?  Shrug
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« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2008, 11:16:34 AM »



Damn, we've got a lot of Asians around here.

Why does it only make up 16%, though?
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« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2008, 11:20:26 AM »

That's 361% of the average.
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« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2008, 11:21:51 AM »

That's 361% of the average.

Ah.
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« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2008, 08:48:10 PM »

and it find this out how?  Shrug
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« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2008, 10:10:40 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantcast
 WTF
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« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2008, 09:42:05 PM »

So pretty much the same that Google's been doing, eh?
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« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2008, 09:58:01 AM »

Also, it makes up stuff.
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« Reply #11 on: December 26, 2008, 10:55:20 AM »

I was just wondering because there's this piece of code on every TIGS forum page:

Code:
			<!-- Start Quantcast tag -->
      <script type="text/javascript">
      _qoptions={
      qacct:"p-8bTdbYIATHgAs"
      };
      </script>

      <script type="text/javascript" src="http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js"></script>
      <noscript>
      <img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bTdbYIATHgAs.gif" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/>
      </noscript>
      <!-- End Quantcast tag -->

And since we had this nasty worm before which injected code into the forum, I'm quite a bit suspicious of such things.
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« Reply #12 on: December 26, 2008, 12:57:56 PM »

It gathers demographic datas for when flashbang wants to sell the site to EA. Panda
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« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2008, 04:31:34 PM »

No, it's good you brought this up muku.  I don't think anyone can ever be too safe when it comes to things like this.  It would be nice to hear that this is all intentional from Derek or something; I'm not a fan of mysteries in situations like this.
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