Company claims to "track exactly who is visiting your website"

[tzaman]

Hopefully I'm not the only one feeling uncomfortable with this. I mean it's okay for advertisers to know some info about me - but everything?

[rcush]

It looks as though this site is not able to track individual people, but only companies. I'd guess they're doing this by querying each visitor IP with a database of known IP addresses used by companies. If so, it's not particularly sinister, not particularly useful, and not particularly accurate.

The discussion being had here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891637 - deals with a site that is allegedly identifying visitors individually somehow, most likely through something to do with social media. However, I'm skeptical.

[emehrkay]

The internet always takes it a step too far.

[josscrowcroft]

I hate them just for the website alone... all the scroll effects kill the experience

[james-singh]

Then why is it asking for my name during registration?

[Svip]

It looks like it is only companies it can track for you.

[Tactix47]

This site's tracking is covered in another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891637 I agree with tzaman that there are serious privacy concerns here...

[NaturalDoc]

I must agree with you and tzaman on this. In a time when we are fighting hard to protect our personal privacy online, companies like this are trying to take more of it away. I hope beyond hope that this company fails miserably!

[bmaguire]

This is a pretty strong argument for using TOR. These guys may not be seriously malicious but they are definitely seriously creepy.