Is quantserve.com Safe?

It's an advertising cite, so it's already a bad start. Advertising also means tracking and profiling - do you want to sell them your privacy for what you get from it? 1) Advertisements, especially scripted for changing ads and even slow-frame animations, not to mention videos or canvas graphics animation written in javascript SLOW the browser. Try to get an addon, if your browser supports, that unloads unused tabs until you select them again, the problem is more evident with us who have couple hundred tabs and minimum of 5 windows open at once. 2) Much of the advertising is disruptive, some even hidden between articles to fool you into thinking it's part of it. But most is just annoying, big banners, half the side menu (that your resolution is not enough to see without scrolling anyway) filled with an ad. Animated, blinking and video ads - no more distruptive? I don't wan't to see them, there's a couple sites, like ***** where I've opted-in for showing ads (not targeted) and disabled µBlock Origin on those sites. But another site, when I did that, the first ad was whole page wide and half height - and not below, but above any content. There was a *thin* bar over it, with login form, etc. - turned right back my protection, I didn't know such atrocities still existed. 3. Children shouldn't watch ad's - no, they should, but only when we are adults don't realize it, because they would do it anyway, or if with their friends, but small, less than 8 year old kids should only see as little as much advertising and with an adult who can explain her about how they advertisement by nature doesn't give trustful info on people, in fact what they promise can be a pure lie. In my childhood my dad often when we saw an ad together started talking about it affecting you and your choices, advertising. I said sure of myself, "I know if I want something, I don't like something if it's only because I saw an ad" - yet my toys were so much from the ads than what I would've picked without them - and popular cartoons. Teach your kid about this, don't let it happen to him - not many get past it, if they grew with nobody making them think about advertising being able to control you - dramatic, but nonetheless, he would likely be way gullible about ads, buying stuff because they saw them in an ad, although it wasn't what goodies they had chosen if they just came and started thinking "what would we pick for the party at Zodiacs - you guys pick something you think is good and tasty, just remember to get a bit vegetarian food for those who don't eat meat", or they had made up a list based on what they've learned to like, not seen on TV. 3. Use NoScript or adblockers (I use µBlock Origin security suite, an AdBlocker and more, it has a quite large amount of filter lists from malware, through security, tracking and profiling to Annoyances Filters, some-buttons (like facebook thumb on non-facebook page) filters, etc. etc. - and several brand of filter collections. I use mainly Easylist and AdGuard lists, although they overlap a lop, and from "country filters" you can find filter list for a bunch of countries. 4. So get a NoScript preferrably, if you want to block domains, allow temporarily or allow and remember, fully untrustable or custom, which let's you select which you want to allow, scripts, frames, media, fonts, webgl, object, fetch, ping, etc. 5. Get an AdBlocker too. I recommend µBlock Origin for fast speed and huge filter list. 5.1. But if you hate intrusive ads, but are OK with non-distruptive (Acceptable-Ad's project defines rules for what size, placement and much more strict rules for ads shown are OK to be accepted, and unless you can apply for it for free (if you're ads follow the rules, your site will be disabled for ad filtering for those who opt to use Acceptable ads). If you want small non-profit and small business sites to be able to offer services on the web, or to create products, etc. to be able to do so, you're the kind of person who loves ABP (AdBlock Plus - That Plus is important though, plain AdBlock is a fraud that calls home with your data). ABP is slower, but even with as many filter lists I have on my µBlock Origin - although it might be challenge to find ABP filters that much and add them by URL (it has very limited list of choices of filter lists in comparison - also many AdGuard and other µBlock Origin compatible filters are mostly compatible with AdBlock Plus, but not fully. Anyway, why use it, if you want to enable the Acceptable Ad's support, after which you don't have to worry about intrusive ads. You might have heard of huge prices for large corporations to get any pages accepted there - Google was know example, but if you read the terms, they actually want only a small percentage of the ad profits. And I mean from ad-profits from Acceptable Ad's - that is, the percentage is from extra income they made after choosing join Acceptable Ads. And not all their pages show non-intrusive ads, but they will still be blocked.

WOT is the only site at URL Void to give ***** a bad rating. Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic ad of Feb. 26, 2015 Diagnostic page for quantserve.com What is the current listing status for quantserve.com? This site is not currently listed as suspicious. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 130 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2015-02-26, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days. This site was hosted on 19 network(s) including AS27281 (QUANTCAST), AS36351 (SOFTLAYER), AS5511 (OPENTRANSIT). Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, quantserve.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites. Has this site hosted malware? No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

Come on, people. The folks rating this site are NOT being objective. If you are worried about black helicopters finding you then you need to get off the grid. This site is found on the Akemai networks which is a trusted WOT website. There are other tools also available if you want to block trackers. Try adding Ghostery.

Detailed tracking and user profiling gathered and processed by Quantserve. Very invasive. ***** "Quantserve.com creates web beacons and cookies operated by audience research and behavioural advertising company Quantcast. It has a number of products: Measurement & Insight This service allows website owners and advertisers can use Quantcast web beacons in their content to see how many views they get, what age range the people viewing are likely to be in, and what income they are likely to generate (demographic data). Audience Targeting Quantcast uses the measurement and insight data help companies find people to target with their advertising. Their "Quantcast Lookalikes" service lets website owners build their own audience segments, which can be very specific. For example, a company could build a behavioural profile of the type of person that likes buying a particular product from their website. Quantcast would then identify other browsers that are similar so adverts for that product could be targeted to them. What information is Quantcast tracking? Quantcast says all its tracking is anonymous, accessing when, from where and at what time a browser loads its web beacon. "Quantcast only models anonymous records of internet usage. Quantcast does not intentionally collect any personally identifiable information – that is, information that could be used to uniquely identify or locate an individual." On its website, Quantcast says it uses statistical modelling to "build a translation of cookies to people". Part of the aim of this approach is to counteract the issue that some people who access sites on multiple devices, or delete cookies regularly, may be counted more than once. Quantcast say it does this by looking at patterns such as how often browsers are visiting the site, and how often they are likely to visit at home and work to infer how many "real" people are accessing a website. However, it does not obtain information that relates back to specific individuals. What Quantcast does is build up a profile of a browser's behaviour across all sites using their web beacons (it claims these include over "100m web destinations, including websites, video, widgets, blogs, and advertising campaigns"). Information that may be captured when browsing a site using Quantcast includes: what page the browser was on; what searches were typed into the website search; the time the browser was on the website. This information, or "log data", is then used to build a profile of different types or "segments" of browsers. In 2010, Quantcast paid $2.4m to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it used Flash cookies to reset tracking cookies after users deleted them. The firm stopped using Flash cookies in 2009, after research by The University of California Berkley identified the practice and it was publicised in the media. Is the data sold to third parties? In its privacy policy, Quantcast says it may share log data and aggregated information with third parties. These include: - companies employed to support Quantcast services. - companies that provide delivery and measurement of ad campaigns. This data would be used for such things as industry analysis and targeting adverts."

***** is run by Quantcast Measure. From their website: provides free accurate, dependable audience insights for over 100 million web and mobile destinations. With detailed demographic and geographic lifestyle information, Quantcast Measure gives you the best understanding of your online, mobile web and mobile app audiences. Marketers, product managers and strategists can tailor efforts based on unique audience insights.

Others post about bad things and the score is very poor. Yet, the Better Business Bureau web site wants to run scripts from quantserve.com. I'm confused, I gotta trust WOT members and I gotta trust the BBB.

https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=quantserve.com "What is the current listing status for quantserve.com? This site is not currently listed as suspicious. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 47 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-12-22, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days. This site was hosted on 59 network(s) including AS27281 (QUANTCAST), AS1299 (TELIANET), AS2914 (NTT). Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, quantserve.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites. Has this site hosted malware? No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days."

21Aug2012 What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 1662 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-08-20, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.

People are commenting about virus attacks from here? I think some people are confusing tracking adverts with malware......whole different ballpark. In fact this site invades your privacy less then any social network that I bet at least half of the people commenting are signed up for. A tracking cookie is NOT malware or a virus, and then you have people taking HPhosts listings way out of context and apparently not even reading the whole listing or even trying to understand it. Wot needs to have a category for tracking adverts but since they do not I find it wrong to list tracking advert sites as spyware or adware...Until there is such a category people should pick "other" (of course then people do not get the satisfaction of putting a red warning dot on sites that use tracking which they have an axe to grind against in the first place)...if people are not willing to pick "other" then they should excuse them self from ranking the website if they can not and are not willing to be fair. There is enough FUD on the internet these days, please try not to spread more.

They host advertisements, plain and simple. The mere fact that you're seeing an ad doesn't mean it's trying to infect your computer. The companies they advertise for are, in my experience, honest, and provide useful products or services. I'm also sure that in the rare event that they discovered their ads were serving up malicious content, they would fix the problem. While they DO collect anonymous data, you can, as CDA230 already pointed out, opt out at *****

Surprised it has quite such bad ratings. I certainly can believe that such a widely-used site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantcast) distributes malware as such, although their javascript can slow down pages considerably. I block quantserve with AdBlockPlus and NoScript with no ill effects. There's a list of similar sites at ***** I put "useless" because the only reliable way of *measuring* site usage is by analysing web server logs with a tool like webalizer or awstats. However, Quantcast would seem to be an easy way of *publishing* potentially inaccurate stats, although at the expense of users.