Comments on: Link Cloaking And Cookie Stuffing

By: Maya

Maya — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:46:02 +0000

Cookie stuffing is a blackhat technique to earn $$$’s within short time. But there is chance of getting banned. Any how I am trying to do once. Wish me all the best.

Thankyou

Regards

By: Find A Merchant Account

Find A Merchant Account — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:14:07 +0000

I cannot believe how many people are finding out about this method. Cookie stuffing is not new but it can get you banned.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:07:11 +0000

Jay wrote:

I’ve wrote a small article dedicated to easy cloaking methods using JavaScript and PHP for others that are not so good with programming

Hi Rich, thanks for the link to your tutorial! I’m not crazy about the Javascript approach, since that depends on the browser to do the cloaking. Your .htaccess example is probably the most efficient way to cloak links, but modifying .htaccess for every link you want to cloak seems like it’s asking for trouble.

Personally, I prefer the php approach I outlined in this post.

By: RichBeaver

RichBeaver — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:52:26 +0000

I’ve wrote a small article dedicated to easy cloaking methods using JavaScript and PHP for others that are not so good with programming
http://richbeaver.com/webmasters/link-cloaking-step-by-step-guide/

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:03:15 +0000

Jay wrote:

From what I know (cos I was a web programmer), every site will only be able to access the cookies placed by the site itself… how will Amazon be able to access the cookie you put from your site?

That’s the idea, although I haven’t gotten into this script enough to see how they do it. Normal cookie stuffing methods involve showing the site, but unobtrusively. It could be that this script takes a similar approach but uses something other than pop unders or iframes.

Jay wrote:

mean… if it CAN be done, won’t it be very scary – imagine a script being able to access your Yahoo or Google account cookies!

Yes, that’s a real possibility if there are bugs in Yahoo or Google’s cookie processing. Chance are good that there aren’t, those being high profile targets, but other sites might still have those sorts of bugs.

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:01:20 +0000

Thanks for the writeup about Cookie Stuffing. Do you mean that you could drop Amazon cookies even without them visiting an Amazon site?

From what I know (cos I was a web programmer), every site will only be able to access the cookies placed by the site itself… how will Amazon be able to access the cookie you put from your site?

I mean… if it CAN be done, won’t it be very scary – imagine a script being able to access your Yahoo or Google account cookies!