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Old 02-08-2021, 06:56 AM  
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Originally Posted by CurrentlySober View Post
It would overwrite affiliate cookies. Say you as a webmaster sent a surfer to a ccbill site, using your affiliate code '12345' - If that surfer had zango installed, zango would say 'Oh, Im going to a ccbill site... Well OK, lets just change the code to a different one then ('54321') and the zango advertiser would get the sale and not you.

Here's an article alluding to it:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-zan...lt-webmasters/
Besides that it would hijack search terms and send people to a different site than they were searching for. Along those lines. A certain well known dating site was a big fan ;)
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