Cookie-Stuffing Targeting Petcarecentral.com
Cookie-Stuffing Targeting Major Affiliate
Merchants - Ben Edelman
This page reports cookie-stuffing by aboutdiscounts.com, targeting petcarecentral.com. In my testing, this is but one of many affiilate web sites targeting this and other merchants.
As of November 4, the http://www.aboutdiscounts.com/petcarecentralcom.php page was #2 in Google results for "petcare central coupon" (without quotes). The specified URL included the following JavaScript code, which opened a CJ tracking link in a new window (as a popup):
<SCRIPT language=javascript><!--
ah=window.open('http://www.qksrv.net/click-276460-10308379','ah');ah.blur();//-->
</SCRIPT>
Aboutdiscounts.com placed this JavaScript code immediately after the </HTML> tag that ordinarily ends a web page. Nonetheless, the SCRIPT executed as usual in my Internet Explorer web browser.
I captured the resulting on-screen display in a video (WindowsMedia format, view in Full Screen mode). I also preserved a full packet log of these findings.