Revolvermaps has shut down. Anyone know why and alternatives ?

[Robin Lovelock on robin@gpss.co.uk]

Hi Guys. For what must be over 10 years, most of my web pages, such as http://www.gpss.co.uk/contact.htm

have a Revolvermaps counter near the end. Today the service has stopped.

I particularly liked it, because ANYONE could see the approximate location of a visitor, based on their IP address.

The location was often very approximate, maybe just saying "UK" or "USA", but it was usually consistent enough, with very few visitors, to guess who the indidual was. e.g. if "Redhill, England" - probably me - in Sunninghill :-)

One could speculate on why, but a company search on the owner on http://www.revolvermaps.com indicates the domain ownership has changed - an American director on the board ;-) BTW many trusted web sites use the old http protocol ( including UK Government web sites ) even if Google Chrome says it is "not safe" compared with the https protocole - where certificates are provided by an American company. I'm sure this is nothing to do with Donald ;-)

Does anyone know of any similar public  "geographical visit counter" ? 

My old "digits" counter, is fine, simply saying how many visits, rather than where.

I must have been using these for many decades, without problems.

i.e. can see if lots of visits to a particular page, and usually provides a few hours,

or more, warning of enquiries on a particular subject.

e.g. when BBC put a link to the "Snoopy" page a few years ago ;-)

Take Care

Robin

http://www.gpss.co.uk and Snoopy's Blog11 on http://www.gpss.co.uk/rbblog11.htm

and http://www.nhscare.info and http://www.gpshobby.htm  

[Robin Lovelock on robin@gpss.co.uk]

Two reasons for this: 1) the video https://www.youtube.com/embed/1xU9GblbvaI on some of my pages, under "Who has visited", and correction of a typo near the end - should be http://www.gpshobby.info :-)

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[Colin Sauze]

Does this mean I can visit your site without being stalked and my
visit becoming the subject of your next email? If so please leave it
that way!

Colin

p.s. I love how you think that an unencrypted man-in-the-middleable
protocol like HTTP is trusted.
p.p.s All UK government sites under gov.uk, mod.uk, ac.uk etc are
HTTPS. HTTPS has been standard practice for over a decade now and not
all certificate agencies are American.

[Robin Lovelock on robin@gpss.co.uk]

Thanks Colin. Your reply brought a few chuckles here :-)

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On Friday, November 15, 2024 at 05:07:12 PM GMT, Colin Sauze <colin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does this mean I can visit your site without being stalked and my
visit becoming the subject of your next email? If so please leave it
that way!
Colin

p.s. I love how you think that an unencrypted man-in-the-middleable
protocol like HTTP is trusted.
p.p.s All UK government sites under gov.uk, mod.uk, ac.uk etc are
HTTPS. HTTPS has been standard practice for over a decade now and not
all certificate agencies are American.

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First the off-topic BTW/P.S. : you are, of course, correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

But, back to the topic of Revolvermaps - I've just put important words on Snoopy's "Blog11" on http://www.gpss.co.uk/rbblog11.htm - near that picture of the burgler towards the end.

"Stalked" ? anyone knowing you have visited a public web page should not be a problem.

Many people know that your personal movements and actions are known for years.

e.g. not long after Brighton bombing on 12th October 1984, every telephone conversation

in UK was recorded, including who with, for long term storage. Parallel processing

- with which you personally will be familiar - was used to recognise spoken words,

and alert human operators, in the hope that they knew in advance of future "mischief".

Not long after "911" on 11th September 2001, the location of every mobile phone

in the World was tracked - even if there was no GPS in the phone.

The above is "common knowledge" above many of us, but most Governments

know their "voting public" would consider it "an invasion of privacy" ;-)

In recent years, Chinese ( and other ) AI technology applied to things like CCTV

provide far more detailed surveillance on all of us.

There are many ways I know of the above, including my software being used

by guys like Cambridge Positioning Systems who won the 911-related GSM solution.

BUT lots more ;-)

I delayed this reply, partly to confirm only Colin chose to reply here.

I see that I used "Clustrmaps" before "Revolvermaps" - but that's all history. 

Thanks for you replies guys, but don't neglect Microtransat ;-)

Take Care

Robin

http://www.gpss.co.uk and http://www.nhscare.info and http://www.gpshobby.info

and Snoopy on http://www.gpss.co.uk/autop.htm

"Contact" page http://www.gpss.co.uk/contact.htm 

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