[aotagain]

Was just about to post something on this subject.
Just putting on a merchants hat for the moment...

In the absence of action from networks for whatever reasons, suppose in the meantime a merchant wants to police their own program within their own set of rules, to try to protect affiliates who generate original leads, from having their cookie overwritten by a cookie-dropping click that does nothing.

What methods could they use to spot the following (and therefore issue warnings as per their set-up terms). ie. how do you detect a cookie dropped ?

1. Hidden iframe forced clicks dropping cookies
2. 'Click to get codes' where there isn't a code and the visitor doesn't go to the merchants site, but a cookie is dropped.
3. Other ways of dropping cookies where nothing is actually contributed.

Could there be a checklist somewhere for merchants who want to implement their own policing for whatever reason they decide is relevant to their program ?