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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Sorry you are incorrect.. The post happens and the join is reported through software which posts to a few tables with a few different ID's / member info attached. Every table, from join page hits, join reports, ip reports, etc would have to be changed. Once you modify one set of data and it doesn't match up with other data NATS breaks, once NATS breaks you have to have them fix it.. Then your ass is busted.
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Not trying to be a dick (and I don't use nats, or any other affiliate program).. but bear with me.
It's still just a data transformation, and once you figured out how to do it, you could do it the same way every time. It might not be easy, but it's sure as hell possible.
I'm not saying this as a negative thing for NATS at all... it's just a fact of SQL databases... I'm sure the NATS guys would admit the same thing. (as would every other affiliate program that uses SQL).
The only way any software could pull it off would be either some encrypted database, or by reporting back something like MD5 data to a remote server not maintained by the site.