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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
No it won't impact your sales as a sponsor. In fact you will actually gain more sales from your affiliates without having to pay them. Even without cookies you'll still get credit for surfers who join your sites. It's the affiliates who get ripped off.
You say it shouldn't negatively impact your affiliate sales but it definitely will not be having a positive impact on affiliates. Even if the number is 5% that's still 5% more that the affiliate is losing and sending the sponsor for free without compensation. 5% here, 5% there, 5% a year ago, 5% when this browser enables the feature by default etc and before you know it the affiliate is losing 30% of sales sent while the sponsor laughs all the way to the bank with what used to be the affiliate's money.
It's almost like having an account with a bank who will not credit you for any deposits if the last digit of the minute during which the deposit transaction is made is a 1, 2, or 3. This would be considered outrageous and unacceptable. It's time for affiliates to demand some changes.
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Well, I won't argue with you about that, without cookies the affiliates definitely will be hurting. To clarify, although I do have a sponsor program, I am derive a great deal of my income from my affiliate sales of others programs. What I think is that it will be insignificant. I don't think there will be a wholesale use of the privacy feature. The people that want to use it are not there in big numbers in my opinion. Try using a browser with the privacy feature enabled for a day or so. It's so utterly inconvenient, that you would switch back as soon as possible. In the corporate environment where you would find users that could use this function, the IT dept has already pretty much made porn inaccessible.
Tracking by IP is no better, obviously that only works with static IP addresses and even those change unless the customer is paying a fee for it. I don't even believe there is static IP addresses for mobile. So when you get down to it, there actually is not a better tracking solution than the cookie. So much Internet commerce relies on it, that until everyone is assigned a permanent IP address, nothing much is going to change.
Just imagine usernames/passwords, I use a ton of them and several programs to manage them. With the privacy feature enabled, I have to remember the user/pass for every single site I go to and, believe me, that is going to get old in a hurry.