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Originally Posted by Robbie
Borked...I know what you're saying you did.
But the actual definition of "cookie stuffing" is not what you did.
Cookie stuffing is when you take a big group of affiliate links and put each one on a 1x1 pixel and hide them in the page so that when a surfer visits your page they get cookied by a ton of different sites with your affiliate link even though they can't actually SEE the sites or even know they were being cookied with it.
That's why it's called "stuffing".
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Right - you can also cookie stuff from images apparently, which I think is what a lot of broken images are on forums (gfy included). Amazon call it something else, but it's the same thing.
I'm still waiting for them to get back to me, but I'm hoping because I was honest and explained the fault, they will see in fact the users ended up on their site, which is actually not at all cookie stuffing.
Redirecting/popups etc aren't permitted since for amazon, it's impossible register impressions to calculate CPCs, which opens up the whole can of worms on detecting cookie stuffing, hence the insane clickthru rate percentage in the image.