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Old 05-24-2018, 10:49 AM  
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Originally Posted by BigFurry View Post
Do you know what cookie stuffing is? A scammer affiliate could potentially place 100K cookies per day. For visitors who did not even click any link. With a first-cookie-wins approach, this scammer affiliate will get all the sales, even if the user didn't click anything on the site.

(Of course cookie stuffing illegal, affiliates have been sentenced to jail time in the past -> Clickticker | Affiliate Tracking Platform )

In my opinion, last click should get the sale, as that's the link that convinced the surfer to join.
We totally agree.
Actually this happened recently with Adult Force products.
We offer review-site discounts but a surfer emailed us that the discount price was not applied. It might not "cookie stuffing" but the surfer had to delete cookies manually.
(The surfer joined the site at regular price, which we didn't deserve a sale via our link )
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