Re: Cookie Stuffing - how to avoid it. Reply #15 – June 01, 2018, 05:15:09 pm Quote from: hartiberlin – June 01, 2018, 11:51:06 amSo the admins here should better deactivate this function on Elkarte.net !No.If you don't want cookies from 3rd parties, your browser has the excellent feature to block cookies from 3rd parties (and if it doesn't have and you are so concerned about stuffing then you should really use another browser) that is the most efficient way to block unwanted content, even more than GDPR, even more than ask a single website to block something that you'll get from almost any website you visit in a day.
Re: Cookie Stuffing - how to avoid it. Reply #16 – June 01, 2018, 06:08:19 pm 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 – June 02, 2018, 08:11:50 am 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 – June 02, 2018, 09:05:53 am 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 theAffiliate integrations of his forum, when blackhat users set their own Amazon or Ebay cookie this way and stealthe 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 – June 02, 2018, 09:49:31 am Has this actually happened to you? I am truly curious.
Re: Cookie Stuffing - how to avoid it. Reply #20 – June 02, 2018, 01:47:27 pm Perhaps using an image proxy for all images would fix that as everything would be served from your domain? Just a thought.
Re: Cookie Stuffing - how to avoid it. Reply #21 – June 02, 2018, 08:15:21 pm Quote from: Spuds – June 02, 2018, 01:47:27 pmPerhaps using an image proxy for all images would fix that as everything would be served from your domain? Just a thought.which is already included into Image Cache add-on, there is an option: Cache all [img]'s, not just ones needed for HTTPS sites.
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