Even Yahoo is promoting blackhat cookie stuffing? lol

The SocialRibbons install is interesting - if you're not familiar with it, it's a browser plugin that inserts their affiliate code into the URLs of merchants' sites you happen shop at, then picks up the the affiliate commission when you make purchases at those sites. The idea is that an end-user would install it because Social Ribbons pledges to donate a percentage of that affiliate commission to charities.

However, the exact percentage of the affiliate commission that is donated to charity is not specified. Just one month ago they claimed that $18,000 had been donated based on 250,000 users - which works out to 8 cents per user. The whole point of this type of program is to drive shoppers to participating merchants' sites, yet no list of participating merchants is available on the Social Ribbons site. In other words, users don't even know where to go to make their shopping dollars count for charities.

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