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Originally Posted by Toby
Bottom line, tracking cookies are way too easy to abuse.
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Its not just cookies -- any tracking method you use will have the same potential for abuse.
cookies, IPs, browser hash, some combination of the above. Anything that you use to try to establish a surfer's identity can easily be stuffed to create that 'last seen from webmaster B'.
Long long ago, tours had the webmasters url in a query string, no cookie was set, and you didn't get a chance at a signup from someone that bookmarked a tour. In that case, the console that pops up over the tour that you sent the traffic to would get the credit.
From a tracking perspective, this scenario will always be a conundrum.