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Originally Posted by andrej_NDC
Correct me, if I'm wrong, but couldn't something like this happen then?
Affiliate A has a gallery on worldsex and sends surfer A to paysite A. The surfer didn't like the gallery and moved on. 20 minutes later, he finds a gallery for the paysite A on thehun(affiliate B), he signs-up. Affiliate A gets credit, even though the surfer signed-up from the gallery of affiliate B.
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That would only be if the surfer not only clicked to the gallery A and looked at the pics / videos but in fact clicked through to the paysite (to set the cookie to start with) and then backed up from there.
30 minutes may be too long, but 1 second is way to short. If sponsors moved it to 2 minutes or 10 minutes say... they could easily see if there is a shift in signup patterns as a result... they could also check to see if people get to the join page with a different affiliate code than what is in the cookie and note that in an error log to review.