Internet Explorer 7 Nuking Clickbank Affiliate Links

Holy crap! That’s some ugly stuff happening. I hope CB gets off its butt to fix the problem.

I just checked this in my IE7 and it is empty.
Do you use any anti-spyware that might add all those sites? I’ve heard of one anti-spyware product that wipes affiliate cookies, but can’t remember what it is called.

I guess the lesson here is to not promote anti-spyware no matter how much it pays out or how well it converts

I don’t see this in my internet settings either but this isn’t the first time I’ve read about it. My sales have dropped in the last few weeks so I’m not quite sure what’s going on. Thanks for pointing this out Stuart.

That’s a big thing this one. Let’s see what Clickbank do, but they must act quickly, because the time is passing, and the affiliates are loosing money day after day, and some of them, that loosed money can be money thousand dollars, wich is very scary!

I wonder if it has anything to do with the massive volume of SPAM sent out by Clickbank affiliates? I receive more SPAM that goes through Clickbank than any other CPA Network.

If you lie down with dogs…

There are a couple of things here…

1. Most IE7 installs right now are happening on top of IE6 most likely. When you upgrade, IE7 inherits the security policy of IE6.

2. I just did a clean install of IE7 on a computer. Then I clicked on a CB hoplink — the cookie was set and the affiliate carried over to the checkout page.

IE7 implemented a zone trust model similar to many other products like ZoneAlarm.

There is no conspiracy against CB, Adsense, CJ or another network as was reported in other blog posts.

I just checked my IE7 settings and it´s also empty.Maybe it´s what Dominic says, some anti-spyware program that added them there.

If you have Microsoft Defender or OneCare installed it can add those entries. I think Norton is another one that populates the IE settings.

If it is at work, your employer might have an Active Directory Group Policy defined with those settings.

Christoph

That’s a sly one. I guess many people still doesn’t know about this yet. Someone need to get the word out to them!

You need to RESEARCH before you start posting false information.

Let me give you the real, researched information.

1. In IE 7, there are not any urls listed by default. You are using a THIRD PARTY security application, like SpyBot, to have the URLs inserted. ie IT’S NOT MICROSOFT YOU USED A PROGRAM TO DO IT.

2. CB sets first party cookies. IE 7 ONLY blocks 3rd party cookies w/out a compact privacy policy by default. ie Clickbank cookies set just fine by default.

how would Clickbank go about taking care of this little problem?

It’s Spybot Search & Destroy. The guy that runs it is in Germany good luck for Clickbank getting him to remove the cookie from their database… I blogged the screenshot from Spybot here: http://blog.revenuewire.com/?p=5

Wow. I would have never known that without this post.

Dude, I just found your blog yesterday. I’m not kissing your ass or anything, but this is by far the most useful internet marketing blog I’ve found on the internet.

Huge props man, keep it up.

do you have any updates on this CB problem since you first wrote it? i’m about 1.5 months into CB so i can’t tell if it’s affecting our sales b/c i have nothing to compare it to.

It night be some antispyware but than it would be less %. So maybe default settings of some Browser but definitely the Spybot. Clickbank will need to contact those companies to be removed from the list otherwise they are loosing money.

Get off the list. You must be subscribed to some list that promotes Clickbank stuff. I have hundreds of email addresses and thousands of rmails daily, and very rarely I get any spam to do with Clickbank. The problem is on YOUR side, pal. Don’t blame Clickbank for YOUR subscription habits. BTW spamming CB products is the most stupid idea in the world because CB closes the spammers accounts in seconds. Go get off that maillist and you’ll forget about “Clickbank spam”

I’m glad Clickbank is blocked. I’m sick of targeted advertising, sick of popups and sick of sly Internet marketers in general. If I go to an advertising-supported site, it should say so clearly up front, giving me the option to stay and accept the advertising or to go elsewhere and not accept the advertising.

Hooray for Spybot S&D, IE7, Firefox and anything else that blocks this crap.

I’ve been on CB about 4 weeks and have had 0 sales. Adwords is getting rich though. How can you find out if your not getting your sales credits?