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I work in advertising. I have seen Ghostery rack up close to 300 trackers before. Piggybacked pixels... they're everywhere

• hobs 13y ago
  How does one even collect the data from 300 trackers?
  • WiseWeasel 13y ago
    Your 300 affiliate marketing partners run software from their affiliate network which automatically analyzes their tracking pixel server logs to determine how far the traffic they steered made it through your purchase process based on the pixels they requested (unique for each page) and the unique ID in their cookies. Then, their affiliate network collects the sales commissions and pays out the affiliate partners.
    • hobs 13y ago
      Ah, gotcha, that makes more sense. I was like, 300 individual sites with individual tracking on what page, what the, how the, etc. Thanks for the clarification!
• deleted 13y ago
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