Cookie Monsters

[pocketjacks]

I know that forums have banners up so that they get credit when you sign up and that's how the admins get special events and other considerations for members.

What admins and players need to know is that you need to clear your cookies before you click that banner if you want to make sure that the admin gets credit. Many banners add cookies to your system when you browse a site they are on - and that cookie supercedes any banner that follows.

What that means is that you are prowling around and you go to any site that has a banner for, well let's use Titan for example. So the Titan banner sticks a cookie on your puter. Then you come here and you click the prof's Titan banner - but he doesn't get credit because of that cookie. Oh - and Titan will NOT change that so whoever cookied you will continue to get credit. AND if you later sign up for any other site that is run by Titan's affiliate program (like Poker Ocean for example) - the person who cookied you for Titan also gets credit.

[aces_up]

I've come up against this before too. I just got a new laptop and it has a program on it that asks me if I want to block cookies. I don't know which prgram it is but I'm researching these programs for my other computers. I was stunned to find out how many sites cookie your machine but this program will allow you to choose to accept cookies from some sites so those you need the cookies from and block all the others.

If anyone has a list or knows any of these blocker programs it would be nice to get your input.

[RiverQueen]

Yes, I have 3 computers and only one of them has the cookie blocker automatically come up. My computer guy is coming over tomorrow and I will make a note to ask him if it can be added to any machine and how. When I get his answer I will post it here.

It's a real shame that this goes on but I am well aware of it because najdoyza had a site and actually it was Titan and PokerOcean that this happened with when her husband tried to sign up. Never had a Titan account or a PokerOcean account before but naj's forum never got the benefit of it and she went to the nth degree to get it changed but was told there was nothing they could do. So as far as I know it is still the same.

[najdoyza]

Yes, I did indeed have that go round with them. For 3 months I went from tech to tech and then into management. They gave me all kinds of reasons and excuses, but what it finally came down to was they refuse to change anything. My hubby signed up under my Titan banner and got re-routed to the general house acct so no one got credit. When he went to sign up for Ocean they put him in the house account because they said that if he was there for Titan that's where he'd be for all their properties.

Through reserch and info from members I learned that they also re-directed a significant number of signups to the house account. So those players were basically stolen. Of course now that they don't let US players in it's a moot point for hubby and I. But for active forums the prizes that sites add are directly related to the players that sign up from your banners and if you don't get credit then you don't get the increased prizes for members.

I would also be interested in any kind of cookie blocking software I could find. I clear my cookies and temp files every few days and I am amazed how many of them accumulate in such a short period of time. My Zone Alarm will stop adware and spyware but it doesn't catch the cookies. i think that's the only thing it doesn't do...lol

[reno]

I didn't know that happened as often as it does. It really makes it hard for the sites to get credit when that goes on. I downloaded cookie cleaner and regularly clear my cookies.