Myspace Trackers official thread

I have (and this is my personal experience, smartmom's PT tracker seems to do better) found that the IP tracker rarely matches a hit to a correct friend ID. It provides the correct IP info, just as trackspace would, but the draw is supposed to come from it matching an IP to a friend ID. In that instance I have found it to be pretty much useless (again - for me). Having said that, PT offers another code, which can also be found here on the GUG private forums, that when used in conjunction with PT's IP tracker, or with Trackspace, will drastically increase the accuracy of any IP tracker. So if you subscribe to GUG you can have access to that code. I hang in there with PT hoping they'll come up with a better tracker in the next few months (I mean hey it's only 5 bucks a month). Since it's been months already, I'm hoping it won't be much longer. And with registration opening again, I'm hoping that means Teriken has something up his sleeve he's working on. So if it were me, I would grab at the join option in the hopes that something better will come along.

Yes, I did add all the filters to ABP. I deleted the trackerlicious code and added one from createblog and I am blocking that one. Now I'm thinking trackerlicious is getting through somehow.

Thanks bottlebob. I will update my list.

Your real Ip only comes up on profiletracker if you are using the same computer as you have previously been tracked on, and the tracker can match up your friendID and browser info- then it will "assume" you are visiting from the same IP as you usually visit from and track you accordingly. 

If you were a brand new person to visit and get tracked via profiletracker and you had NEVER been tracked before, the tracker would log you as a new track with the proxy IP.

It has to do with how PT reads the cookies and some other technical stuff.  

ok...i had trouble signing up for trackspace, so i tried mixmap just to get the ball rolling. it did work, but im not sure how to use the info it gives me. once i have an IP address, is there a way i can find the email address and other information from my visitors? if not, is there another tracker besides profiletracker.us that will give more information?? profiletracker.us isnt taking new members. thanks for your help!

thank you very much Pat. i might try that idea. i already know the person who i tracked is my target though. mixmap gave me the IP address, but i was hoping to see the email address and other info too. is there another good one that does that??

Oh, one more thing:

When you log on to trackers to view your hits, it will add a few hits to your profile counter.

With trackspace, I suggest making your trackspace account set to private, because other users of trackspace that are logged into trackspace at the same time as you, can view your profile. That will add views to your counter, and they dont get tracked for some reason. (not sure if its because they block trackers or have immunity by being members of trackspace) Although trackspace says it will lower your accuracy of hits if you have your trackspace account set to private--but I havent really seen that happen (but I dont know for sure) But I keep mine private to keep other users of trackspace from accessing my profiles.

just a little fyi.

You are welcome good luck!

Yes, it will block the trackers that are not visible to your eyes.

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Right now you can't, and even if you could it wouldn't do much good. The codes that the PT tracker uses have been filtered by MySpace, so you can't add them into your profile.

It still works for existing members, but they cannot edit the section of their profile that contains the tracker, or it will be filtered for them as well.

Your best bet until something opens up is an IP tracker like MixMap or Trackspace. 

You can get his ip by sending him an email to the email client he uses (hotmail, yahoo, etc). Put an email receipt notification in the email, and send the email from an anonyomous email account and it would also probably be best to disguise your own email address or go to a different computer.

The info about email receipt notification can be found by clicking here.

I don't know of a way to determine if it is dynamic or static. The only way (that I can think of) is to do it once more to see if the ip changes or not. 

But, there are certain factors that are included for this to work:

• Will he be using the same computer to open the 2nd email you attempt
• Does he keep his computer on for days at a time (dynamic ips usually dont change until a user turns the computer off and back on) His computer could still be using the same ip from 3 days ago if he hasnt restarted or powered off/on the computer
• if he has a static ip, will he reset the modem and obtain a new ip--coincidentally as you are performing this "test"
• other factors that I cant think of are a possibility as well

But now that you have his ip, you can place a tracker in your profile and see what happens. I suggest trackspace because it usually matches up dynamic ip's to the same user (but sometimes you have problems activating your trackspace account)

Another good and free tracker is mixmap. Although, it doesn't match up ip addresses as dynamic or static. But it is very user friendly.

Also remember that when you get ip addresses from trackers--you can plug them in to ip lookup sites and see what city and state the ip is coming from(keep in mind that sometimes the ip will reflect the city/state of the internet service provider location).

Yes and also some people have a dynamic ip address (changes everytime they log off and back on the computer). There may be a possible alternate idea, but at the moment I can't think of one.

Not sure what you mean Pat---make adblock not block it?  Or make it not show up as a blocked object in blockable items?

Nah, I tested it and if you place it in the right place-then it doesnt mess up anything. I will try to think of a good example--

--put the tracker code in between style tags. 

example:       </style>codehere</style>