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QuoteOn the World Wide Web, cookie stuffing (also cookie dropping) is an affiliate marketing technique in which, as a result of visiting a website, a user receives a third-party cookie from a website unrelated to that visited by the user, usually without the user being aware of it. If the user later visits the target website and completes a qualifying transaction (such as making a purchase), the cookie stuffer is paid a commission by the target.

QuoteUnless you've disabled third-party cookies, it will.

Quote Once the third-party cookie system is in place, it can be made to do something useful. For example:

When the third-party cookie is set any content can be sent to the web page with appropriate HTML tags. Image, JavaScript, Flash, HTML ads, anything that can be published on a web page. [The ad thing might apply, but in that case the actual ads would already be doing the tracking cookie job in the first place.]

The cookie setting can be logged, along with any other information available at the time, including referring web page and domain, and including any other information the HTML tag provided. [This obviously applies.]

Date and time can be recorded. Ad identification can be recorded. [Sure.]

Cookies previously set can be read and the cookie's value adjusted. [Yup.]

There are ways to work around third-party cookie restrictions some browsers make available to their users. [Not without participation from both domains.]

The limit of what can be done may be determined by the limit of what can be imagined. [Not to worry about that one; again not without participation from all domains involved.]