ClickJacking - Idea on hiding refferal traffic through another website.. can it work?

There is software that does this for you and I know people who have been making thousands per day with this method until about a month ago. Google is the only ad network that you can make money with while using traffic. But as of about a month ago these CJ accounts are getting banned within less then a month. PM if you want more details, I will send you to the software.

jadog said:

There is software that does this for you and I know people who have been making thousands per day with this method until about a month ago. Google is the only ad network that you can make money with while using traffic. But as of about a month ago these CJ accounts are getting banned within less then a month. PM if you want more details, I will send you to the software.

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Appreciate the offer if that was directed towards me. I am quite aware of the CJ script being used with the G network. I also know some guys still banking with it . But yeah, a lot of accts got hit recently.

I was simply seeing if anyone wanted to weigh in on the legalities of using a CJ script to forward traffic to a CPA. Not to click on an actual CPA offer or G ad. In my example I illustrated what I beleive to be a perfectly legal use of a CJ script. No one was defrauded, no one was "forced" to click on anything. The CJ script was more or less used to redirect traffic whilst still showing a "real" site to CPAs.

Cheers

kboxer7 said:

Scenario #2: Same as above, but instead of a "forwarded URL" the traffic was sent to a site with a CJ script installed that sent the user to the affiliate site.

NOTE: The outcome of both scenarios was the SAME.

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What you described is not clickjacking.

Clickjacking is if you fired off that CJ script within a hidden iframe. Or if you fire off an amazon or clickbank script in some clever way which does nothing but set you as a referrer.

Then -- some 2 weeks later, the web surfer who was clickjacked decides to go directly to the CJ site or amazon to purchase. Because of the clever little script you ran a few weeks earlier, you are automatically designated for an affiliate commission.

And the affiliate who "wasn't harmed" -- actually was harmed, because they had to pay out a commission for absolutely nothing. That is cookie stuffing, it's illegal and it'll have the feds knocking on your door if you happen to have made millions of dollars doing it.

Ok cool. I thought what I was saying was "ok" to do. I mean the traffic would still be routed through a link with an aff ID in it. BUT, no one was defrauded. The CJ script merely acted as a re-direct by clicking on a link sending them to the aff landing page or whatever.

I guess I was just trying to work through it in my head that if I pay for targeted traffic it makes no difference if I send it to to a URL (wtih my aff ID in it) that gets re-directed to the aff network OR if I send them to my review site/landing page that imediatly CJ and clicks on a link with my aff code that sends them to the network. The result in either case is the same....though achieved in 2 diff ways.

Hope that makes sense. Have not done it myself...and without targeted traffic it would most likely be a waste anyway.

Cheers

phpbuilt said:

What you described is not clickjacking.

Clickjacking is if you fired off that CJ script within a hidden iframe. Or if you fire off an amazon or clickbank script in some clever way which does nothing but set you as a referrer.

Then -- some 2 weeks later, you decide to go directly to the CJ site or amazon to purchase. Because of the clever little script you ran a few weeks earlier, you are automatically designated for an affiliate commission.

And the affiliate who "wasn't harmed" -- actually was harmed, because they had to pay out a commission for absolutely nothing. That is cookie stuffing, it's illegal and it'll have the feds knocking on your door if you happen to have made millions of dollars doing it.

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