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Originally Posted by borked
Check Post # 20 in this thread...
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...
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That is negative cookie stuffing. But if you do it on a page where you are only showing a bunch of products for the site in question and they have their site url all over the place on the images then I don't consider it a negative type of cookie stuffing. I consider that making sure you get paid what you are owed.
I don't consider what you did at first to be very bad since you did send them to amazon. It may still be against their terms though. It would be different if you did as in post 20 where you stuff the forum with no other promotion and on someone else's site.