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.