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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.

Read more: https://www.secjuice.com/etag-entity-tag-tracking/

Use it yourself: https://www.kissmetricshq.com/

Thanks to share :thumbsup !

One thing is; i hate it when there is no price listed and when they say REQUEST A DEMO (no demo already set up? ) meaning LOTS of talk for nothing :2 cents: with those sellers that will throw out your way a HIGH bill$$$$ at the end or mid convo after your insist he shut up and tell you how much it will cost you :1orglaugh ...... IMHO .

On a serious note: Is there anyway one can really stop cookie stuffing without using tools like above ^^ ?
Anything like a coding we can add in our header to block those ?
Thx

amazon uses etags to track users, thats one way that they trace fake reviews

Nice find.

Would be great if NATS added ETags as an additional way of tracking visitors, in addition to cookies.

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Originally Posted by BigFurry (Post 22550909)

Nice find.

Would be great if NATS added ETags as an additional way of tracking visitors, in addition to cookies.

Not ALL programs would love that. Its against the business model