Many affiliate marketers have heard of “cookie-stuffing” – a broad term that can cover almost any scenario in which affiliate tracking links are invoked, and cookies are placed on a user’s computer, without the user so requesting.  Historically, this was often done via invisible windows such as 0x0 IFRAMEs and even IMG tags.  But with […]

When adware programs and their partners want to drain advertisers’ budgets, they have an oddly well-established path to do so: Wait for the user to browse an advertiser’s site, then invoke an advertiser’s own affiliate link. Users will typically not notice anything amiss; at most they get a second window showing the advertiser’s web site, […]