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Cookie Stuffing with Google Adsense
- Smerity 14y agoAs the article points out, they must be making good money for this attack to be practical. The back of the envelope calculation seems reasonable: even paying Google reasonably high CPMs they're making it back via Amazon through even casual browsing. One of the issues is that legitimate affiliates can't tell when their affiliate revenue has been stolen. The cookie lasts 24 hours and any Amazon transaction occurs offsite at a later time -- they have no idea what to expect re: compensation. For that reason Amazon may not be chasing it down as eagerly as Google would with Adwords. With Adwords users can far more easily see when they're being scammed.