Affiliate programs which return your surfer--have they all gone away now?

[Simon]

Damn...sometimes you blink and they're gone...

It seems like only a year or so ago, there were some affiliate programs which had a means for you to specify the URL where you wanted your surfer sent if they didn't join the affiliate's site. In other words, if I sent a surfer to their site via an affiliate link and that surfer didn't sign up for a membership at their site, the surfer would be shown another window with whatever URL I'd specified.

Sometimes this was done by opening a new window on exit from the tour pages. Other times it was done by opening a new window at the beginning of the tour and "blurring" it under the main tour page so it would already be there if the surfer closed the main tour window at some point.

I like the idea that if surfer didn't signup, I could either pull the surfer back to one of my pages or send them on to another program that I liked.

Present day -- I've been searching for some programs that offer this, but so far I haven't been able to find even one. I know this must have gotten much harder to do with the new generations of popup blockers and tabbed browsers, but has it actually become impossible?!

Does anyone know of an affiliate program that offers this today? Or do you remember the names of any of the programs that used to offer this feature?

Simon

:::scratchinghead:::


P.S. I always want to be straight with you here, so I'll tell you that I'm asking this for a specific reason. I'd like to add this ability to our own program but if no one else is offering this now, I'm thinking that maybe there's a good reason. So I don't want to go too far down a dead-end road if this is just undoable now.