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Originally Posted by Aidan 
This is a very likely scenario, which makes me agree quite a bit with PPP.
I don't think there will ever be a way to work with cookies in this business that will make everyone happy. There will be flaws in every system.......
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Clear your cookies.
type carbonpoker.com in the address bar...
poof, you get a carbon poker "first cookie".
If people want the last referal, the result will be just as I said above.
Someone (after visiting an affilaite early that day) will seach for 'that poker carbon site' on google, click the Google link, go to carbon and, poof, get a last carbon cookie.
The cardrooms are not total idiots. There is no way around this. They will never give up rights to getting players themselves, and the reality is the MOST LIKELY site a player will go to first is the cardroom itself... that is, carbonpoker.com will generate the most "first cookies"... AND carbonpoker.com will generate the most "last cookies".
There are advantages and disadvantages to first or last cookies, but last cookies will take millions from the affiliate industry, while first cookies make it so if a site really and truly turns on a player to a cardroom first the only way they can lose that referal (short of a screwup) is by ANOTHER AFFILIATE getting the referal due to a bonus code.
I like the cardrooms, but I don't really want to give them millions from the pockets of affiliates, in a relatively random way to boot (just because somebody closed their browser and typed in or used a search engine to find the site again).
((I may be wrong that last cookies would give more money to cardrooms since the cardrooms choose first cookies after all, but at the very least having last cookies makes it so random, trivial loss of players from the affiliates to the cardrooms is far, far more likely.))