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besterman · 12-09-2003, 09:25 AM

I've been working with ccbill affiliate progs for a long time and my experience shows there is a real big problem with the cookie mechanism for crediting affiliates under the following condition:

"A surfer who surfs porn alot has a lot of ccbill cookies on their machine from various sites. Since there is some sort of upper limit on cookies (my assumption) I've seen cases where you can go through the referer tracking code a million times and it will not store the new ID if there are already too many cookies in the user's system. For some reason, IE doesn't seem to expire these fast enough (especially if someone is really surfing lots of porn through promo sites)."

Not sure if there is a solution, but this is the 1 case where I'm sure some affiliate can lose money.

12-09-2003, 09:25 AM
besterman Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 623	CCBill's affiliate tracking cookie needs major tweaking I've been working with ccbill affiliate progs for a long time and my experience shows there is a real big problem with the cookie mechanism for crediting affiliates under the following condition: "A surfer who surfs porn alot has a lot of ccbill cookies on their machine from various sites. Since there is some sort of upper limit on cookies (my assumption) I've seen cases where you can go through the referer tracking code a million times and it will not store the new ID if there are already too many cookies in the user's system. For some reason, IE doesn't seem to expire these fast enough (especially if someone is really surfing lots of porn through promo sites)." Not sure if there is a solution, but this is the 1 case where I'm sure some affiliate can lose money.