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Cookies are used to store sessions on a user’s computer, not track the referral. The worst that can happen if a user’s cookies are disabled is that if the visitor clicks through your link, doesn’t sign up, and visits the casino again via another affiliate or direct type-in, you don’t get credit.
Hopefully this makes sense.
thanks
i read something which led me to believe this, then i did an experiment
i set up a web page, that only i could access, put up a couple links i know update in real time, then downloaded a trial version of this program which cloaks your ip and hides your surfing habits from others
and sure enough, the clicks wouldn’t register
my first thought was that the casino, or whoever, would need an ip address from your sign up for you to get credit for it, if they had their ip hidden, you would not get credit for the sign up
i related this to cookies because these programs that enable you to hide your ip disable cookies
i would like to figure this out, only because i did try it myself, and like i said the clicks weren’t registering, but when i stopped running the program, the clicks would register like they usually do
i’m sure you know these programs like evidence eliminator, secret surfer, etc…
i’m thinking this might be a problem in the future, especially with so many of these programs around, getting cheaper to buy
Here’s my understanding: A casino has two ways to know that a referal came from you:
1. When they visitor arrives they grab the affiliate code from the URL and set a cookie on the visitor’s machine with that code. This is pretty easy.
2. Or, they keep attaching the affiliate code to the end of every url as the visitor wends their way to the site. This is harder to do, and it fails to credit you if the visitor comes back later via someone else’s link, or by typing in the url directly.
I guess a casino could do both — #1 for most visitors, and #2 for those few who have cookies disabled.
My guess is that most casinos do #1, but that’s just a guess.
It would be very helpful to know what percentage of casinos use cookies vs. keeping the code in the url vs. both.
It would also be helpful to know what percentage of users have cookies disabled. Anyone know where to get that kind of data?
