View Single Post
Old 07-23-2010, 01:49 PM  
SallyRand
So Fucking Banned
 
Industry Role:
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: In A Galaxie Far, Far Away!
Posts: 3,487
:2cents

Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlsOnYou View Post
Could someone explain to me how can someone steal an affiliate link in a way that matters? I guess you're referring to them changing the affiliate ID in the link code to their own but they can't really change anything on the server so they'd just have to do it at end user side with some virus or such, correct?
Exactly, Affiliate thieves do just that through infected user's computers. The surreptiously implanted software replaces your affiliate ID with the ID of the scammer and you get traffic, you just don't get paid for it.

Lots of infected computers out there.

Sally.
SallyRand is offline   Share thread on Digg Share thread on Twitter Share thread on Reddit Share thread on Facebook Reply With Quote