How to set "Don't Track My Pageviews" for Blogger and save that damn setting!
If you have a blogspot / blogger blog like this one, you may notice that you have an option called "Don't Track Your Own Pageviews" at your blogger dashboard.
However, if you have cookies protection turned on (on your browser), you will not be able to change and save the setting from the default "track your own pageviews" to the "don't track your own pageviews" option. You will find that the next time you click on it again, it will show that it is still at "track your own pageviews" option.
To overcome this if you are using Chrome, go to Settings>Advanced Settings>Privacy>Content Settings>Cookies>Manage Exceptions
Add the following to your exception list :-
[*.]blogspot.com
[*.]blogspot.sg (Depending on where you are from, it could be .something else)
[*.]blogger.com
After doing the above, go back to your dashboard and change the settings to "Don't track your own pageviews" and exit and go back again to confirm that the option has not switched back to the default "track your own pageviews".
Thanks.. this is exactly what I saw searching for.
ReplyDeleteI saw few other sites before coming to this one and almost all of them had a post just for the sake of it... just screenshots of how to do it ( which anyone do it without any geeky inputs)
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DeleteYes thanks! .. This is exactly what I was looking for as well!
ReplyDeleteIf only the entire internet was as precise as this post!
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DeleteThx so much! This solved my problem. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post. I am using Firefox. I changed the settings in privacy>use custome settings for history>esceptions> and allowed blogspot.in and blogger.com, clicked OK. Nothing happened. Can you help?
ReplyDeleteExactly what I was looking for. Thanks :)
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for the post. I'm using Chrome and followed all your steps but it doesn't seem to have worked. Do you have any suggestion why this might be?
ReplyDeleteDo you just add [*.]blogspot.com, or do you need to change the address to your blog address, e.g. username.blogspot.com ??
ReplyDeleteThis didn't work for me :( arrgg I hate technology!
ReplyDeleteHey guys, for Firefox it's: Tools > Options > Content tab > Click Exceptions (to the right of the block pop-up windows check box) > Enter the urls and click allow for each. Hope that helps someone
ReplyDeleteits not working...i have a custom domain....http://www.techviews.in/ .........help me
ReplyDeleteI don't have quite this problem. The "don't track my pageviews" option is saved as being selected, but it still tracks my pageviews anyway. Any solution to this problem?
ReplyDeleteFantastic - thanks for the instructions. Worked a treat!
ReplyDeleteCan someone please help me, this doesn't work for me :/
ReplyDeletewhat about Safari for Macbook?
ReplyDeleteSafari (8.0) does not seem to have an exception list you can edit like in the Chrome browser, but you can work around the issue by doing the following:
Delete1.) Go to Safari -> Preferences... in the menu bar
2.) navigate to the Privacy pane and take note of your current setting under the section "Cookies and website data"
3.) Change the setting to "Always allow", exit the preferences window and close the browser (cmd+Q)
4.) Open your browser, go to your blogger dashboard and change the setting to "Don't Track Your Own Pageviews"
5.) When you are done you should go back to the Privacy settings (Safari -> Preferences... -> Privacy pane) and change the "Cookies and website data" setting back to what it was before
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't work on firefox. Blogger saves the don't track pageview, but ignores it anyway.
ReplyDeleteThank you!!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for this post! The other advice on the internet was hopeless, I'd tried to do it for a few hours and then I found your blog :P Many thanks.
ReplyDeleteit's still not working for me.. when I set it to "don't track my pageviews" it stays as it is but still counts my visits :S
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