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Originally Posted by Kellie AFP
When the originating traffic was another affiliate, then the forced click results in the first affiliate's cookie being 'overwritten.' But this is done by normal affiliate tracking programming, not by the software physcially altering the first affiliate's link or cookie. The software NEVER goes near those. It's done by setting off the second affiliate's tracking AFTER the first one has tracked and uses normal affiliate tracking programming. The aff using 180Solution is now the 'last cookie in' which is Industry standards. .
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Thanks for posting and help explain in very good detail how this works.
The part I quoted above is what I have the biggest issue with. In my situation, to use one of my sponsors as an example, apparently someone has bid on the keyword " ifriends ". So I can no longer make a sale from ANYONE who has zango installed on their computer, to this sponsor (and the thousands of others they target).
When my TRAFFIC clicks one of MY links, MY cookie is set. Seconds later zango detects "ifriends" in the person's browser because after I set the cookie the next thing i do is send them to ifriend's website to signup. BUT, when zango detects ifriends in their browser Zango launchs their own window (pop under that the person may not even see) which sets zango's ifriends cookie. So *I* pay for the traffic. *I* send the person to ifriends to signup. This is MY Sale, but Zango gets credit for the sale because they set the cookie after mine? They DID NOTHING. the did not generate the lead/ traffic, they did not do anything to "sell" the person. The did not pay for the ad or create it. All the did was find a way to stamp their name to the sale seconds before it goes through.
I understand they don't "alter" my cookie. What they do is replace my cookie with theirs. 1+1 = 2 and 3-1 =2 I don't care how they get there, they are deliberately targeting my traffic and stealing my signups.
The point is they do ZERO to generate sales but yet they take all the credit when someone signups.
DO you people realize that everyone of us can not make 1 penny off of a zango infected computer. They have tons of sponsors targeted. The more and more people get affected the less chance we have to make money. Look what they did on myspace the last couple weeks. Search for " myspace and zango" and read the info there. No telling how many millions of computers were infected just from that in the last couple weeks. This company single handed has ristricted us from doing business in a deceptive way. None of the people who downloaded zango did so because they wanted to screw advertisers ?
what service is it doing to the end user to pop under a page to a site the user is already on ?????? Someone explain that to me.
This is deliberate and deceptive and has to be illegal, at the very least they should be liable in a civil case.