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[–] podperson@lemm.ee 60 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

That's not going to work for links sent by text or whatever.

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

When you go to the website, it can save that cookie for the session, even if you later remove the parameter.

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

I don't understand. Cookies and request method are two different things. You can set cookies on GET.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

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