Re:Inside a viral website
by joekrill on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:53AM
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You can't match up the product with an actual user or person in any way.
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Create a web page of various recommendations, send it to a specific friend whose household regularly makes purchases on Amazon. Unsuspecting friend clicks on affiliate link, now you know all things they buy in the next 24 hours.
Works anywhere else where the audience can be identified, and click frequency is low.
Oh, no definitely not. Nope. There's no way that a company can see that you've purchased Some Things within the past 24 hours and definitely can't correlate those purchases with receipts. Nope that's not a thing. Definitely not. No way at all. Especially since companies aren't owned by parent companies. That would totally be impossible.
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Re:Inside a viral website
by jordansmith on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:21AM
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Correct. As the affiliate blog you see nothing involving receipts or personal info for purchasers. Itβs just a jumble of all your referral purchases