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Old 05-28-2018, 07:18 AM  
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Originally Posted by TACNet View Post
Yep you would think that would be the way to go but the problem with that approach is the load on the server end.

If youve got say 100,000 users visiting say 1,000 ccbill affiliate websites then thats already 100 million bits of data you have to store on the back end server. Almost all of which is going to be unused unless the user actually joins a site

Obviosuly with cookies all that workload is placed on the client end
True. I guess they could just do it for the few users who get near to the cookie storage limit of the ccbill domain. Probably 0.1% or 0.01%

Or yeah, use local storage like suggested above!
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