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Originally Posted by ilsoph
1. they don't alter, manipulate, or delete 3rd party affiliate referral tracking info.
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yes they do. It is the nature of how cookies work. When you come to my website and click a link to my sponsor it sets a cookie on your computer. If you were to edit that cookie you will see information there, like my account code, etc. Now when zango pops under a window that sets a cookie to the same site, if you go back to your cookies folder and open the same cookie, you see their affiliate info there. Whatever you want to call it, my cookie is altered, deleted, replaced, what the hell ever, it is gone and their cookie is there.
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Originally Posted by ilsoph
we need to test if zango is actually rewriting referral info, as popping up another window of the same site proves nothing.. shouldn't be too hard.. just proxy the target site... kinda like "man in the middle" attack and intercept to see what really gets sent.. someone technical with some time up for an experiment?  |
I have recorded this, so i have documention of it happening. I set the cookie on my computer and redirect the person to yahoo.com for example, no zango page pops up. When you edit the cookie you see my account info there. BUt when i set the cookie and then redirect the person to my sponsor's site, a zango page pops up for the same sponsor. When you go back to your cookies and open that one, their affiliate info is now in that cookie and your information is gone.