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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
I think I see a bit what Robbie is saying. I don't consider stuffing a cookie to a single site to be negative cookie stuffing as long as it's just one site and the site's material is actually being shown on the page within reason. Now that urls are all over the place on content that is just being a smart affiliate and making sure you get your commission. It's not that much different than linking a ccbill gallery to go through ccbill's site first before the vistor lands on the actual gallery. Now if you open 100 sites in 1x1 i-frame that is something different.
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I could do the same in my sig so that if you haven't viewed my sig in 24 hrs, instead of displaying my sig, I pop an amazon cookie. Then if you see any of my posts in the next 24 hrs, you'll see my sig image, all the while my amazon refcode is set on your browser and you knew nothing about it.
Now visit amazon and buy anything and I get credit for a sale I didn't make.
In my eyes, that is cookie stuffing and it's very very dishonest. All I did was set 1 cookie per unique visitor yet could make a shitload on it, esp with geolocalised stuff too.
But, you'd quickly get caught out...