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Originally Posted by heiko0o
Can you shed some light on the unique user identifier, drexl?
Is it something that is tied to one machine, like a mac adress? - What if a user decides to clear cookies and register under a new affiliate link? Will he still be with the same user identifier? If not, what's the point of the unique user identifier?
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The data used to produce your stats comes from the backend. The cookies are only used to bind a username to an affiliate, after that it is in the db.
If you look at your stats you see this:
Timestamp User ID Purchase Amount Commission Track Signup Date Country User UID
Column #2 is an ID that has a 1-1 relationship with a username, thus it will change for each username. Column #8 is User UID (User Unique ID) and is a 1-n relationship with usernames (1 user can have many usernames)
For example your user could have a username webmasterxxx with User ID = 12345678 who has a User UID of ABCDEFG.
When that user is stolen, in the backend it will show like username cc_newusername with user ID = 777777 and User UID = ABCDEFG
12345678 shows up in YOUR stats, 777777 shows up in "who you know"'s stats. Both are the same user (same UUID).
They do have the data, they just need to change the binding to an affiliate from username to user, and this would solve part of the "stealing"