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Originally Posted by RawAlex
John, maybe I should ask the question in a different way: Do sponsor sites using NATS hardcode the links into every page of the tour as the surfer moves forward, or it is dependant on "last time they entered the site they used this id"... either through cookies or a tracking DB?
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NATS sponsors are instructed they should pass the code through each page of their tours via the query string. The code is also stored in a cookie and we also do IP tracking.
However all of this can be gone around by spyware if the spyware wants to. It can change the link code on a link before the surfer even hits NATS in the first place making all of this irrelevant. If NATS thinks that the code is something it shouldn't be the first time it sees it how is it to ever know it was changed?
Like I said, if there is a way to help we'd love to impliment it, but its doubtful.