Title: [Plugin: WordPress.com Stats] Quantserve Code in Stats Javascript
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress.com Stats] Quantserve Code in Stats Javascript

 *  [Brian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galaxyfox/)
 * (@galaxyfox)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-quantserve-code-in-stats-javascript/)
 * Today, I visited my blog while not logged in and for the first time, I noticed
   that the Quantserve tracking code was present.
 * I never added this code to my blog so I started investigating and it turns out
   that it was injected by the WordPress.com plugin.
 * When was this added as I was not aware of it and is it really necessary? The 
   plugin worked fine before this change and I really don’t want the Quantserve 
   code to load for my website visitors.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Brian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galaxyfox/)
 * (@galaxyfox)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-quantserve-code-in-stats-javascript/page/2/#post-1777399)
 * I have to agree with futtta. There is nothing on the WordPress.com Stats download
   page even mentioning third party tracking in addition to the fact that Quantcast
   is being added to a lot of anti-tracking lists and would be unreliable.
 * I installed WordPress.com Stats from the beginning because I liked the simplicity
   of it. Now, its the only script on my site that needs to load synchronously because
   of the use of document.write. I have ran many tests and the WordPress.com Stats(
   combined with Quantcast) take longer than the rest of my page to load.
 * In addition, I also installed WordPress.com stats because it did not set any 
   cookies whatsoever. Now with Quantcast, it sets a cookie under my domain name
   as well as their own quantserve.com which is detected by most anti-malware products
   as a 3rd party tracking cookie.
 * I want to continue using WordPress.com Stats but lately some unnecessary features
   have been added including the wp.me shortlink which I don’t need as I have my
   own shortlinks.
 * I would love to see a “lite” version as well with just the basic Stats like it
   used to be without any of the other stuff. I don’t need a unique visitors feature
   with WordPress.com Stats. I have Google Analytics and CloudFlare to do that (
   both of which don’t use unnecessary third party services).
 *  [gazouteast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gazouteast/)
 * (@gazouteast)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-quantserve-code-in-stats-javascript/page/2/#post-1777400)
 * If Auttoic are not willing to release a “Lite” version without the quantcast 
   trojan, then the least they could do is make a confirmatory announcemnet regarding
   which was the last version of the plugin to not include it.
 * This would allow webmasters to roll-back to that version, ammend the php file
   to a ridiculously high version number (avoiding upgrade notices in wp-admin, 
   and get on with life, enjoying the plugin as it was before this nonsense emerged.

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-quantserve-code-in-stats-javascript/page/2/#post-1777400)
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