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How would this affect affiliate tracking on a site like Kayak or priceline? Wouldn't it scrub over the affiliate id? Seems like that could be a major headache f
by rcarrigan87 10y ago
How would this affect affiliate tracking on a site like Kayak or priceline? Wouldn't it scrub over the affiliate id? Seems like that could be a major headache for sites that use URLs to track referrals/sales.
- TheRealPomax 10y agoNature of the web, really. As a website, you control the content you send out to the user, but that's where it ends. If the client rewrites the content as per the user's needs or wants, that's out of the site owner's control (unless you want an arms race, of course, in which case it's pretty much lost by default for site owners vs all users on the planet)
- cobbzilla 10y agothe only way I can see around this would be to give every affiliate a unique hostname on the target domain. then the site owner would identify the affiliate using the hostname of the incoming request. next step in the arms race would then be for an addon to understand per-domain rules for rewriting hostnames. lather, rinse, repeat.