Just about any site you visit nowadays will be recording a substantial set of data on your visit, even if it just records the pages you visited, your IP and your browser's id string. If it's a problem I suggest masking your IP / changing how your browser identifies itself, rather than changing one specific site.
(Personally I find it interesting, if not demonstrably useful to know where less wrong readers are coming from. Of course you could view this using only aggregate stats.)
I think I wasn't clear enough. I maintain several webservices. I perfectly understand that lesswrong collecting such data about me is normal. But I am not happy that sitemeter publishes the whole stuff in a non-aggregated form, for everyone to see in real time. Do you suggest that this is usual, too?
I have just realized that sitemeter has the following data published about my visit, in a searchable and browsable format:
en-us
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1
I am not a privacy geek, but isn't this a bit too extensive? By the way, I am not from Etyek, Hungary, I am from Budapest, Hungary. Etyek is a very small village, so if sitemeter consistently identifies me as someone from Etyek, then it will be even easier to track my lesswrong browsing habits. It is very easy even without that.