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\nUnfortunately, since September 15, 2020, the CacherCounter can no longer be included in listings on Geocaching.com (other sites like OpenCaching continue to work). Code that has already been integrated remains and continues to work. Here<\/a> is the corresponding info and thread directly from\/at Geocaching.com. Hier<\/a> is also a list of currently whitelisted external domains.
\nOf course, I contacted Geocaching.com and asked to add my domain to this list. Here’s the answer:<\/p>\n

Hello Martin-
\nThank you for contacting Geocaching HQ.
\nYes, images not hosted on approved domains or Geocaching.com will be blocked to protect other players from advertising and other browser cookies.
\nThis list is subject to change, however we are not currently looking to add any more domains at this time.
\nBest regards,<\/font><\/p>\n

This hole story in general and especially the impersonal, unconstructive and completely negative answer is extremely unsatisfactory and I am very angry about it. Because the reasons mentioned for avoiding advertising and browser cookies do not apply to the CacherCounter. But it seems that at the moment there is no way to use the CacherCounter in new listings or to enter it in existing listings. So I started a petition at change.org to show Geocaching.com that the CacherCounter is not only important to me. This is the petition<\/a> (unfortunately, you cannot create petitions in multiple languages), I ask for your signature and support!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am a statistics freak. ;-) So I’m also interested in how many visitors watch my cache listings. For many years, I used the CacherCounter by grafzahl84<\/a>. Unfortunately, his website and thus the counter is offline now, for 2 years (as of 20.06.2017). Since I liked the design and still like it, I have recreated the counter. I think that there is no hope that the grafzahl84 website or counter will be online again. This is how “my” counter looks in the three available variants:<\/p>\n

\"CacherCounter \"CacherCounter \"CacherCounter<\/p>\n

Here’s an example of a listing at Geocaching.com<\/a> and a listing at Opencaching<\/a>, both including the counter. I think I got pretty close to the original. :-)<\/p>\n

I would like to make the counter available to other geocachers for their listings. Of course, as the original, without advertising or other frippery…<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is a short guide on how you can install the counter in your cache listing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enable the checkbox “The descriptions below are in HTML” or enable HTML view in your cache listing at Geocaching.com<\/a> or Opencaching.de<\/a>, then copy-n-paste from this page, insert the corresponding GC code (instead of GCXXXXX<\/em>, codes starting with “GC”, “TB”, “PR” and “OC” are allowed) into the counter code. Done!<\/p>\n

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\"CacherCounter\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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This will show the counter centered in your listing. If you also want to show the date since you started counting, the code looks like this:<\/p>\n

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\"CacherCounter\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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And in German language with German spelling of the date like this:<\/p>\n

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\"CacherCounter\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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For French and Italian with German spelling of the date please just use fr<\/em> or it<\/em> instead of en<\/em> or de<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If the date is to be displayed in ISO notation (YYYY-MM-DD), regardless of the language, add &iso=y<\/em>, the code for example looks like this:<\/p>\n

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\"CacherCounter\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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One request:<\/em> Please leave the link to this page in the counter code. This gives other geocachers the opportunity to use the counter without much research. Many Thanks!<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n