It's not really cookie stuffing. In the end, people have to click on the ad to get the cookie. Cookie stuffing would be, for example, HN embedding a hidden ifr

It's not really cookie stuffing. In the end, people have to click on the ad to get the cookie. Cookie stuffing would be, for example, HN embedding a hidden iframe with their Amazon code and placing cookies on users. I did something similar a couple of years ago with a _very_ cheap traffic source I found. I bought traffic and sent it straight to the Amazon homepage. I had a good run for about 4-5 months. On my last month I really ramped up traffic, spent like $250 and made around $6k in a single month. But amazon caught on and like you said, cancelled my account and didn't pay me. It's a sucky thing to do I guess. I know of massive operations where guys are pulling in $10-20k per month. If someone wanted to really put their brains in to it, cookie stuffing is very hard to detect.