How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison
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How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison
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Re: How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison
#2"So eBay installed a tiny “gif” file on its homepage. A gif is simply an image file. This one was so tiny no one could see it. It sat there invisibly."
Re: How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison
#3"So eBay installed a tiny “gif” file on its homepage. A gif is simply an image file. This one was so tiny no one could see it. It sat there invisibly."
Brilliant writing.
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#4domainx.tld cannot set a cookie on ebay.com. Did they just iframe ebay (with affiliate ID) and get caught? Or did they use some other method?
Re: How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison
#5More accurate to say to "put two fraudsters in prison". Hopefully they'll keep on putting fraudsters in prison.
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#6More accurate to say to "put two fraudsters in prison". Hopefully they'll keep on putting fraudsters in prison.
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Re: How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison
#7domainx.tld cannot set a cookie on ebay.com. Did they just iframe ebay (with affiliate ID) and get caught? Or did they use some other method?
Iframe of the affiliate link. eBay sets the required cookies.
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#8domainx.tld cannot set a cookie on ebay.com. Did they just iframe ebay (with affiliate ID) and get caught? Or did they use some other method?
Iframe of the affiliate link. eBay sets the required cookies.
Wait, so they just rendered an iframe of a random product on ebay that contained their affiliate information on a bunch of widgets they hosted ... and this lands you in prison?
Lets imagine I publish an eBay widget (I don't) to promote products I think people should buy. Lets say the widget just renders products in my sidebar. Lets say thousands of blogs then install this. Would I be then bound for prison?
I'm struggling to understand this murky situation based on how you described it.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Iframe of the affiliate link. eBay sets the required cookies.
Wait, so they just rendered an iframe of a random product on ebay that contained their affiliate information on a bunch of widgets they hosted ... and this lands you in prison? Lets imagine I publish an eBay widget (I don't) to promote products I think people should buy. Lets say the widget just renders products in my sidebar. Lets say thousands of blogs then install this. Would I be then bound for prison? I'm strugg…
From my limited understanding of cookie stuffing you are trying to get the ebay cookie on someone's computer without them knowing and without actually promoting anything for ebay. In your example you would actually be promoting ebay products although i'm not sure if that is sufficient to be legit. Haven't looked at the ebay affiliate terms in a while but you might be limited to placing cookies only when they click through in a link.
Re: How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Iframe of the affiliate link. eBay sets the required cookies.
Wait, so they just rendered an iframe of a random product on ebay that contained their affiliate information on a bunch of widgets they hosted ... and this lands you in prison? Lets imagine I publish an eBay widget (I don't) to promote products I think people should buy. Lets say the widget just renders products in my sidebar. Lets say thousands of blogs then install this. Would I be then bound for prison? I'm strugg…
Their widget did not advertise eBay at all, and when clicked it lied to eBay claiming someone clicked a eBay ad, when the person probably only wanted to see the widget about page or something like that.