I was just browsing through some of the stuff you get when you click on "My Gransnet" up the top there

Elegran! Shush! Stop outing me!

either (left that off)

No I don't! I was just giving examples.

I don't actually visit the Duran Duran Fan Club boards.

Oops! Sorry, that was meant to be a

You mean you still visit Grannynet, jingl?

It doesn't say it collects the info from the site you were on before this one, it says "from the site you came from". It is anonymous, too, so they only know that someone has been looking at pictures of Merlin and hbis magic wand, not that it was you.

When I was webmaster (webmistress? sounds like a female spider about to eat her mate) of a site, I received anonymous statistics about visitors. It said when there was a visitor, time and date, ISP provider, browser, whether they wer new or repeats, and which pages they looked at for how long AND "referring site" that is, any link on another site that they had followed to get to mine. If they had typed in the last site or had it in their favourites/bookmarks that column was blank.

I don't actually go on anywhere dodgy!!!!

Just seems strange that they can do that. I don't mind. Well, I don't think I do.

It doesn't say that.

scroll down to Passive Information Collecting

I think that it only transmits it when you come via a link from the last site, so unless dodgy sites have started adding links to Gransnet you should be still OK to visit them (assuming you were OK visiting them in the first place, of course)

So, be warned.