How to apply affiliation cookies through browser extension without redirect?

garage_greg

I'm currently working on a browser extension project for an affiliate marketing business. Affiliate marketing usually works by setting tracking cookies on click to identify the referrer in case an article is bought on the partner's website and rewards the referrer afterwards. How can some browser extensions "activate cashback" or "activate affiliation" without having the user to go through a redirect page? How can they apply all the tracking...

Originally asked by dimitri on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

It seems that these browser extensions create a tab using a standard affiliate link without focusing it. Once it is completely loaded (DOM, external scripts etc...), they close it and display on the main tab that tracking has been activated.

Full answer by dimitri: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/70261621 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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