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Affiliate Marketing Rabbithole

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Is Ebe's Pixtle in Your Widgets?

Ebe put a tracking pixtle in there now so we can see who is viewing these. They didn't care about paying sales commissions, they cared about tracking user behavior. So if you ever looked at the widget code, it's right there in plain view. It's coming from their web server. And e be doesn't have nything to do with us. Doesn't even go through our server. E b was writing an affiliate cookie through every single pixtle without apparently doing any kind of checking. A they were literally spamming everyone in the world with an affiliate cookie.

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