Comments on: Will Chrome Incognito Kill Affiliates

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:13:26 +0000

Loptr’s, thanks for showing us how little some people understand how the internet (& the modern economic world) work. I remember thinking the same thing… affiliate marketers… it’s just a fancy way of engineering a pyramid scheme.. i thought. Boy i was wrong! I wonder how many businesses would survive if no body referred them?

A for the browser… i can’t imagine it’ll be a hit. People like consistency, most people use either internet explorer (?!?) or Firefox. Google’s never made memorable software, i don’t see this Chrome being anything to worry about.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:08:32 +0000

Unfortunatly Chrome’s Incognito mode isn’t really private. It keeps so-called “flash cookies” even after leaving the Incognito mode. So every website can still keep track on you using this technique. And other users of your computer can see where you have been surfed too.

By: incognito-mode

incognito-mode — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:04:57 +0000

I did a study a few days ago trying to recover data that supposedly is wiped from your computer. A forensics expert assisted and scoffed at the idea of the incognito window really being ‘incognito.’ Anyhow, I put him up to the challenge and he tried to beat Google and its infinite wisdom. The results were startling.

By: cldnails

cldnails — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:50:13 +0000

Hey, who are you calling hot and sexy?

By: cb_nuts

cb_nuts — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:34:44 +0000

F you marketing bastards. I want porn with no strings attached. Your worried about the financial impact of incognito mode. Big woop. This crap is in the noise. Its going to be years before anyone even figures out how to download the software and run the setup app, and by anyone I mean everyone on the uphill side of the bell, not us hot and sexy downhill side marketing types.

By: cldnails

cldnails — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:02:57 +0000

My guess is that you just don’t understand marketing Loptr, otherwise you wouldn’t make such bold statements.

As far as real world applications…it goes on all the time and has been for years. Any sales force could be compared directly to affiliate marketing. For example, I used to work for a company that I made outside sales too, which typically required a lengthy presentation. After making the sales call to the customer they were entered into our database. Anything that customer purchased from us after that point I received credit for. Just like online affiliate marketing, it’s all commission based.

As far as our ‘right’ to track customers, we are not tracking your movements around the web. The only thing that is tracked is if you purchase an item through a link you clicked on in one of an affiliate’s sites and for however long the cookie duration may be.

If you have another example of how it does not compare to real world, let me know. As far as your statement on the legitimacy of affiliate marketing I’m just confused. But again, I suspect you don’t have any sales or marketing experience.

By: Loptr

Loptr — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:45:20 +0000

I think merchants need to evaluate their self proclaimed right to track the origin of customers.

Affiliate marketing was never a clean and legitimate way to make business. Imagine a real world application of the same methods..