Re: Cookie Stuffing - how to avoid it.
Reply #16 –
Only bad for the admin if he relies on Affiliate income and some other users steal it via Cookie stuffing...
so I always disable the image tags.. so nobody can cookie stuff the other users...
Re: Cookie Stuffing - how to avoid it.
Reply #17 –
Well, then you have your answer.
Honestly, rely on cookies for incomes is as reliable as random guess because cookies are for sure not a way to control users (or at least not a reliable one since are client-side).
Re: Cookie Stuffing - how to avoid it.
Reply #18 –
Many affiliate Programs on the Internet work this way, especially Amazon und Ebay...
which are widely used...so it can hurt extremely the Admin of a forum, if he needs to make money from the
Affiliate integrations of his forum, when blackhat users set their own Amazon or Ebay cookie this way and steal
the commissions from the Admin of the forum...
So I would advise all forum admins to disable Image Tags...Also you can link then via it to Malware which is then
executed...not too funny...
Re: Cookie Stuffing - how to avoid it.
Reply #19 –
Has this actually happened to you? I am truly curious.
Re: Cookie Stuffing - how to avoid it.
Reply #20 –
Perhaps using an image proxy for all images would fix that as everything would be served from your domain? Just a thought.