I went over to the Blogkits site thinking that this may be a opportunity worth checking out. With the possibility of a way to develop some more revenue towards hosting and upkeep cost of this website. Their questionnaire was pretty straight forward and non-obtrusive. But when I submitted my information they provided a piece of code that they wanted me to implant on this site for a tracker that is hosted on their server which would have allowed them to tracks hits to this site and god knows what else.
Their is no way in Hell I am going to allow a third party have a look at my sites statistics especially not knowing what they are capturing. It does not take a genius to build a tracking application that builds a detailed site statistics report. But I refuse to be party to their information mining efforts. No other company has ever asked this of me in the past and I was shocked to see it.
So I caution fellow webloggers out their read their FAQ very carefully and then decide if it is worth your integrity to sell your site statistics. I will discuss with companies that talk to me my hit rates but will never sell or knowingly let someone track our readers activities.
Any company that wants me to review their product and give them and the readers of this site a honest assessment of their product just need to contact me, but it will be a cold day in hell before I release my site statistics to someone I have not a clue what their bona fide intentions are. [www.blogkits.com]