Don't worry mods, this isn't a plug of some super service I have

Something I have noticed is that all (I think I'm safe to say all) 3rd party PR checkers have been blocked by Google meaning you now have to get the Toolbar to check PR.

Guess this is a way for Google to track everyone because most people are Google PR mad

I think I need to stop with the tin foil hat moments, as soon as I posted this, PR appeared again on every site I checked :X

All these services abuse Google's TOS, so it was only a matter of time.

Surely if they wanted to track people, they'd leave the sites operational ... and track users?

But actually, you are wrong.

I Googled [page rank checker], and two of the first three worked perfectly. One failed.

I suspect the one with the captcha will last longest, as it's less open to Twit SEOs using robots.

[you posted as I was writing]

lol, yeah that was my bad, I noticed all PR went grey or N/A on our sites so I checked WMW and people were saying they got grey or N/A PR too, bit a testing and got the above, then back after an hour

I think Google likes to make me look a fool sometimes

There's another shake-up, by the looks of things; if memory serves me right, people are worrying / celebrating too soon; it usually takes a day or three for changes to settle down, and they can be all over the place in the meantime, for some pages.