Please you two discuss as you say opposite things (and Konrad developed some my stuff):
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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
By IP in a database won't work because alot of ISPs share one ip across several users. You'd have to fingerprint something like ip+user agent+anything else you can find out, store that and then you're probably breaking some other privacy laws...
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Originally Posted by Konda
You don't need cookies to track affiliate traffic/sales.
Most sponsors have at least two other methods to track the traffic and credit sales to the affiliates (IP tracking and parsing along the ref code), so cookies are really not needed.
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