Using the AddThis bookmarking service

Can they spy?

[vivalasvegas]

I was looking at the social bookmarking buttons from AddThis and I have one concern: if I use their service would it be possible for this company to also record the traffic my website receives?

[jetteroheller]

Shure they can track the traffic of the site when You use the original code with the graphic taken from their site.

I have integrated the javascript into my own javascript
So no call to the addthis.com javascript

function addthis_click()
{
var aturl ='http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php';
aturl+='?v=10';
aturl+='&pub='+'my_addthis_id';
aturl+='&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href);
aturl+='&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title);
window.open(aturl,'addthis','scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,width=620,height=620,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,screenX=200,screenY=100,left=200,top=100');
return false;
}

I load the graphic from my own server.

[komal]

Do really social book marking sites drive traffic.

[edited by: engine at 11:48 am (utc) on April 7, 2008]
[edit reason] No sigs, thanks [/edit]

[vivalasvegas]

Thanks Jettero. I suppose that by using this solution you don't get stats either.

[jetteroheller]

Thanks Jettero. I suppose that by using this solution you don't get stats either.

All stats presented by addthis are based what the user does, after clicking the link on Your site.

So I get my stats like any other user using the normal code