It makes me sick !
Why are so many programs counting second page uniques and shit like this ? I'd rather see a real 1:2000 raw instead of a bogus 1:200 with totally useless and incomplete referrer stats. There are several huge programs using this second page unique count, I won't call names, but if you count your own outgoing hits, it isn't rocket science to figure out who messes with your clicks.
Why are 70% of my visitors unique according to server stats but no sponsor comes even close to this % when looking at my stats ?
Why do some sponsors count webmaster signups and surfer signups to calculate overall conversions, but webmaster clicks aren't counted ?
Yes, there is alot of competition and apparently conversion rates are a holy cow. I never cared for other people's conversions, but apparently many webmaster do. It becomes more and more ridiculous, and it's not just a few programs.
To some extend, it's understandable, but if I send a program 2238 in a day I don't want to see 271 in the stats, or 390 and 12 counted.
It's not shaving, it's not scam because there is no clear definition for a unique, but please at least point it out clearly in your TOS or get rid of the hit counting completely like some mainstream programs, so affiliates at least know that they have to rely on their own counts.
Flames on !