A brief Tutorial/FAQS about Myspace Trackers..

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A Few FAQS about Myspace Trackers..

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Trackers are real.
--Many places on the Interent will say trackers don't exist; but they do. Those are the same types of people who say that private profiles cannot be seen




Most trackers will capture your IP address along with date/time of hit as well as some general browser/computer information.
--Your IP address does NOT reveal your home address.
--If a person looks up your IP with an IP lookup site, it usually reveals the location of your Internet Service Provider.
--the only way to get someone's real home address with an IP is if you have a court order or are Gov..or if you have inside connections with an ISP(s).




Some trackers have a database that stores friend IDs that are associated with IP addresses
--usually the database it created by the myspace users that make a "profile friend ID identification" of an IP address; therefore it is not always accurate.
--In fact, some people purposely misidentify hits to prevent the profile from being identified correctly.
--Your friend ID is your "myspace account number"




Some trackers will tell you what links your visitor clicked on;
--some also show the referral url (the webpage they were on prior to hitting your profile)





Trackers can be placed in many places on a myspace profile.
--Including the profile itself (about me, interests, etc)
--Headline area (usually people put their tracker code in their headline if their profile is private so that it captures all visitors)
--Blogs
--Blog comments
--Profile comments (some people will also comment their friends with a tracker embedded in it so that they can track who all visits their friends' page)
--Picture captions
--Picture comments





*Most trackers are invisible*






People can use multiple trackers.
--Usually if you are using multiple trackers, you will want to use a seperate tracking code for each section so that you can distinguish which area is doing the tracking)







You can block trackers.
--We have a thread that tells more about that as well, click.....here








We also have the she-geeks tracker blocker to help you stay automatically updated on blocking any new trackers...You can find it....here






If you run across a new tracker that isn't on the tracker block list yet, plz post it....here
--new trackers come out all the time.


 

[justy]

nice tut. i have a tracker i need to add to our blocker

[benecia]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but can a tracker be added to an email or a myspace message so that when they read it their ip is tracked?

[Jewels]

Most regular trackers won't work in emails. You need a specialty email tracker for that. But regular trackers work just fine for myspace email msgs. When inserting one it is also advised to insert an image of some sort. When the recipient hits reply the html for the tracker will show in the message. So if there was an image included in the email, the unaware receiver will usually assume all the "gobbledygook" is from the image. If there was no image inserted it could cause some suspicion.