This news is just over a month old but is new to me. Talking to a few of my domainer friends this morning they hadn’t heard of this news either.
Shawn Hogan of Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning of Kessler’s Flying Circus and Brian Dunning of Thunderwood Holdings are being accused of defrauding eBay in a cookie stuffing scheme that made it appear the defendants should be paid commissions. eBay claims the defendants created a software program that redirects a user’s computer to eBay’s website without the user knowingly clicking on an eBay link. Once the cookie is stuffed on the user’s computer any future purchases would award the defendants an affiliate commission.
To read the full story visit CourtHouseNews.com and click here to view a copy of the law suit.
On a personal note I will rarely be using Digital Point Forums. The only use for me is access to some good designers at very reasonable prices.
Yeah I saw this when it was first posted on Digital Point actually. I’ve read about cookie stuffing a lot before also and know it’s a shady and black-hat method to earn money. Basically it means that when someone visits a site, it stores a cookie on their computer. In this case, it’s an eBay cookie. If that person doesn’t clear cookies (most people normally don’t that often), and visits eBay, the cookie stuffer will earn the commission from any purchase made.
I have only used Digital Point Solutions Forum and that too has the worst service ever wit JUNK posted all over and mods playing tic tac toe somewhere banning ppl.. idiots!!
I have seen blackhat people use this technique. Basically the webpage you are visiting uses frames, and there are lots of tiny frames that you cannot see. In those frames there are affiliate links opening and automatically creating cookies. I once saw a page that opened 20 clickbank affiliate pages in tiny iframes, inserting lots of cookies. Very shady.
I like Warrior Forum anyway, so i will continue to ignore DP.