10-25-2019, 11:23 AM
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Bye - Left to do stuff
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 4,109
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Dear Affiliates, are you being scammed/cookiestuffed out of business?
Heard of ETags?
How many of the affiliate programs you use, utilize this way of tracking the customers?
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The dynamics of how the web works is not a new concept. The crux of it is; a client requests a resource from a server and then the server in turn returns the requested resource. New mechanisms were introduced time and again to make this process easy, efficient and fast. To make this process a lot easier, efficient and inexpensive the concept of cache was bred and later on Entity Tags were introduced.
This article is meant to introduce the concept of Etag Tracking on a beginner level.
ETags or Entity Tags is a web cache validation technique for identifying users or rather resources visiting a website. It is a unique key-value pair tagged to a browser. These etags are elements which are cached by the browser, and returned to the web server when the said element is requested a second time.
This Etag mechanism enables websites to track users across sessions, in spite of changing the IP address, disabling JavaScript, cookies and/or local storage. This is achieved as a result of sending the Etag data in the http-header.
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Read more: https://www.secjuice.com/etag-entity-tag-tracking/
Use it yourself: https://www.kissmetricshq.com/ |
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