This law is about "tracking cookies", mainly about third party cookies like tracking user behaviour over various networks etc. Like Google and FB and the big ad agencies do to show targeted ads to users.
You are still allowed to use cookies for your site for log-in forms and shopping carts etc.

For sponsors and tracking sales nothing will change. All of them track fine without cookies. The majority also uses IP tracking + parse along the ref code to the join form. So you don't have to worry about this.

Here we got the optimist. Common sense things are allowed--- only if user click yes to a popup window, theorically for each frame and banner separately too - very user friendly? Also let's track affiliates without cookies as you said, only custom host domains would work really (such as affiliate001.site.com, affiliate002.site.com - if he signup that same landing, not if he return other day), we'll see.

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Is it in North Holland and South Holland, or in the Netherlands?

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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.

Your affiliate links usually look like this: http://secure.paysite.com/track/YourNatsCode/
When a surfer clicks on it his IP will be logged in the database and he will be forwarded to http://www.paysite.com/?nats=YourNatsCode
Then the join links on the paysite also parse along YourNatsCode to the join page.
So when the user joins, the system knows to which affiliate to credit the sale. Either by the parsed along nats code, or by the IP address. And most use server side sessions as well.

You shouldn't worry too much about surfers that do no join right away. There is a huge chance that if they come back a few days later they have already clicked another affiliate link, so you wouldn't get credit for the sale anymore anyway. In addition the majority of the webmaster programs have a hardcoded inhouse linkcode on the warning page, so if the user would get back to the site by typing in the site url he wouldn't be credited to you anyway.

So no, this is not going to change anything.

Please you two discuss as you say opposite things (and Konrad developed some my stuff):

The chance that a user changes IP during the signup process is very small. The chance that someone with the same IP would visit during the signup proces is impossible (an IP is only assigned to one customer at the time).

Only if the surfer does not signup directly and comes back a day or more later you would lose the sale, but in most cases you would have lost him anyway (see my post above). Also the amount of people that do not join directly, and then join within the next week(s) is really really small. This will not have any effect on 99% of the affiliates.

exactly, this is a stupid law

IE9 is full of bugs, it is the worst version so far.
I can't even freeze a panel with a wrong mouse move

google is your friend. Its the Netherlands.

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