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. First cookie in situations have been discussed numerous times in the past as a solution. There are a few networks and merchants who actually do first cookie in. However, it is not a generally accepted policy by most affiliates. And I can guarantee that if it did become the Standard in the Industry, then adware would just adapt and modify their programming to accomodate this (I'll not go into how they could do that technically, but there are some applications out there right now that are not impacted by first cookie in because of how their particular software behaves).