cookies do not work AT ALL

[bundy_app]

Hi all.

a recent study of JupiterResearch says 50% users delete cookies monthly; and 12% (the most active surfers) delete them everyday.
Now, how can a company like tradedoubler, which buys advertising in ppa, tell us the truth?
It is obvious that a PPA model is totally inefficient for the editor/affiliate.
I'm form Italy; here we're forced to selle the spaces in ppa, cuz nobody wants buying advertising 'in a classical manner'; what is the PPA situations i the other countries and in usa?
thanks in advance :)
ted

[Brett_Tabke]

I do not believe the story or the study. 50% of the users of the internet don't even know what cookies are. Of the remaining 50%, only 5% of them know how to delete cookies. I would guess less than 1 in 100,000 people delete their cookies monthly.

Remember who put out that study.

[Moby_Dim]

Agree. Among all my friends who use Internet but do not know what HTML means, nobody knows about cookies. More, some of them does not know what the name of their browser , and what the word "browser" at all means.

[bundy_app]

there are software (antivirus too) that automatically and periodically remove cookies. Whats would be the interest of Jupiter to modify the data? to sell much searches? I think others (cj or td) have much interst in veiling those data

[Tropical Island]

I believe that SP2 blocks cookies by default - I could be wrong about this - which could explain how the cookie situation is changing rapidly.

From our AdWords account we have a number of terms where the URL goes directly to a page we track so the result is always 100% less those blocking cookies. While the sample is small it seldom registers under 100%.

We were in an affiliate program however after sending thousands of clients their way there were no sales. As these visitors were very qualified it seemed really strange.

If I block out the possibility of dishonesty then my only other answer is their tracking cookies were not working.

We now use AdSense.

We block all cookies other than our known log in sites.

[dmorison]

SP2 blocks 3rd party cookies that "do not have a compact privacy policy" set. Therefore, affiliate and other tracking systems should be OK as long as the P3P headers are delivered along with the cookie.

See [w3.org...] for more info.

All the mainstream affiliate networks have been using P3P for months now.