• podperson@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    This is definitely what it’s supposed to do (and a great feature) but unfortunately it doesn’t work that well. Have tried this many times, especially with Amazon links, and it seems to be a bit inconsistent in its effectiveness.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      9 days ago

      You probably also need to clear your cookies as well. I can’t really see this being done only via GET

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        Yeah, I cannot imagine any reason they wouldn’t use cookies to track this. The moment you arrive via an affiliate link they’re going to know that that’s how you got to the site for that session.

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          8 days ago

          How do you think that would work? Like the site with the affiliate link should drop a third party cookie for gumroad? That’s a pretty big requirement.

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      9 days ago

      If a platform gets traction and is good at removing them, then links will be more obfuscated to deal with it.