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Originally Posted by redwhiteandblue
Has anyone looked into using HTNL5 local storage for storing affiliate codes? It would be harder to use because it's not sent in the header so you'd need Ajax to store and retrieve it, but it's not affected by the user clearing cookies or using private browsing, and there's much more space than there is for cookies.
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Sounds like a good idea to me! Even if just as a backup next to cookies. Because of the clearing cookies / private browsing stuff that you mentioned.
The limited cookie space is not a big issue in my opinion. If a big aggregator like CCBILL *knows* that the limit *could* be reached, they should just improve their system. They could stop adding individual cookies for each website visited, and identify the visitor with one Id. One cookie identifies a visitor, eg. ccbillVisitorProfileId.
The rest of the information connected to this visitor can be stored on their server (ie. for 57 CCBILL sites visited, 57 Website-ActiveAffiliateId-Expirations stored.)
But maybe they already do this by now, I have no idea.
