My Single Mom Life

I want to apologize to all of my blog readers and visitors, for a very odd pop-up for a thing called dg.specificclick.net.
It looks like this, (you probably have already seen it on my site a gazillion times, so so sorry!)

Apparently, this has been well known since like April 2007, but tonight is THE first time I have ever seen it on my site's pages.
I had absolutely no idea, and no one told me!

It was from the site tracking product sitemeter, a stats tracking service that was well known and trusted, I've seen it on many, many blogs over the years, and never saw that pop up before tonight.
I did a view source search on the pages of my blog it was popping up on, for the specific term "dg.specificclick.net", and came up empty, so I googled it to A) find out what it was and B) find out how to get rid of it.

1,170 search results, and thankfully, this guy posted a very detailed post that explains the entire thing, what it is, how to get rid of it, who did it, blocking it's cookies and so on.

Why hadn't I seen it until now?
Because I rarely, if ever, clean out my cookies.
But on Sunday, I was having an issue and so I cleaned out all cookies, it took about 1 full minute before the box closed, so you know that I just had tons and tons of cookies in there.
Because I hadn't cleaned out those cookies for so long, I had never seen the pop up at all.
I had various forms of the sitemeter code on many pages of my blogs, and so after having a totally cleaned out cookie jar, I was now seeing that pop up everywhere tonight.
I had no freaking clue!

So what did I do when I learned that it was a sitemeter related issue?
I went through every page of my blog where I had their code, and I removed every line of the sitemeter code.
I cannot believe that that crappy pop up was on so many pages of my blog, and I never noticed, but my readers and visitors had been subjected to it.
I am so so sorry, I truly apologize for that crappy piece of tracking spyware crap popping up on all of you.
I had been using and loving sitemeter for all of the years I've been blogging.
It was a really good stats tracker, but I've now removed it and tested all the pages I had the code on, or at least I think I did.
If any of you come across a sitemeter code on any page, or get hit with that pop up on any page, please let me know so I can remove it.

I trusted and loved sitemeter for a long time, and when I started my new blog back in July, I was meaning to get around to adding the code to that blog too.
Thank goodness I never found the time!