clearing cookies

[TheGoodBuyGirl]

I see a lot of people mentioning to clear cookies to receive credit.  I know how to clear cookies... but my questions are:
1) how often should I clear them, in order to receive credit 
and
2) why am I doing this, exactly?   

Many thanks,
TheGoodBuyGirl

[shetkowski]

Supposedly if you clear cookies before every offer, you have a better chance of receiving credit because multiple offers may be from the same advertiser. It's never worked for me though.

[aianicorp]

so if you clear you cookies you get your credit?  :-

[Madd4Money]

Here's what Admin says:   (which is completely different from what most of us do  )

"Assumption: you are completing offers legitmately, with real information, and for the first time.

From a technical standpoint, nothing in this thread could possibly help your crediting.  In fact, the cookie deletion is much more likely to hurt your chances.

Look at it this way:  these tracking systems have been around for many many years and are designed by the marketing companies that use them.  It's in that marketing company's best interest to track as many completions as possible, since that's how they get paid.  Therefore, the tracking systems were designed so that they track perfectly on a standard, out-of-the-box configuration.  And they do.

There are two main methods by which an offer can fail to track:

Advertiser choice
   -> The advertiser's computer system may choose to not fire the tracking pixel.  They are allowed to do this, and although the criteria are usually stated up front, sometimes they are not.  Example:  If a particular company owns several different sites, they may choose not to fire the tracking pixel if you sign up on more than one of their sites. [We try really hard to avoid putting conflicting offers up but with dozens of companies and hundreds of sites it is extraordinarily difficult].  Another example: if you've signed up at a site before, and you sign up again, they generally will not credit you.

Technical limitation
   -> Pixel tracking has an inherent and insuperable design flaw that causes it to track less than 100% of the time.  This can happen for a few reasons: Flow interruption, blocking, HTTP request failure.   
          --> I believe blocking is the most common cause for noncredit.  I use this term to mean the blocking or deleting of the tracking cookie.  This can and often does happen silently.  It's usually a "feature" of ad-blocking, anti-spyware, or anti-virus software; or sometimes a setting in your browser; or sometimes it is done by hand by people who think that they are helping themselves by deleting cookies.

          --> Flow interruption occurs when you complete an offer's requirements, but do so via a different "path".  An example of this is Obopay - if you sign up but their system cannot verify your identity, it will request that you call them and fax them a driver's license.  Once you do this, your account will be activated (and thus the offer requirements met) - but you will not be credited.  That's because you never see the normal "account successfully activated" page - they activate you manually via the DL fax.  There's just no working around this, sadly.

          --> HTTP request failure.  When you get to the page on the advertiser's site which meets the completion requirements, the advertiser's server instructs your browser to download an invisible "pixel" image which handles the tracking.  If you press "stop" (or hit the escape key, back button, etc) before the page is fully loaded - the pixel will not be fetched and the offer will not track.  Occasionally, the request to fetch the pixel will fail for an unknown technical reason.  It's the insuperable nature of the protocol that the failure happens silently, and it doesn't get tried a second time.  In that case, the offer will again fail to track.

Sorry to get so technical.  This is mostly my opinion, but I base it on a significant pool of data and experience from a 2.5 year period.

Bottom line... use your regular email address and contact information in a fresh installation of any standard browser, without any adblocking, antispyware or antivirus software running, and you're golden 99% of the time.
 
« Last Edit: October 04, 2007, 06:20:48 pm by Administrator »   "

[SLEEPYBEAR916]

yea i have also tried clearing cookies whenever i do a offer it has not worked for me it worked for 2 offers then after that  have not been credited oh well thats y i dnt really clear cookies anymore :-

[molson73]

Sorry! New to all of this! So do you want to enable cookies on your computer or what is the exact steps to clear cookies.

[MystedMoon]

I clean my system every night before bed & have never had a problem from deleting cookies. I just don't do it between offers like some do.
I make sure at nights end that I am logged off of FC, logged off of my other sites, close down all browsers and then clean my system using ccleaner!

Only offers that have never credited for me were the This-VS-That offers and a few .50 offers when I first joined. Everything else has credited.

Many have to realize too that leaving an offer page open for about 15 seconds after completing an offer, before closing the page, ensures that the cookie has had enough time to send the info to FC. Most of the time & in my experience, closing a page immediately after an offer has been completed was why I did not get credit. I started leaving them open for about 15 seconds and no problem.

I guess what works for some doesn't for others. And I'm not sure if it has anything to do with what programs that  are running on someones computer in the background during their time on FC or what. Some programs that are running in the background may interfere with the cookies.

I dunno. I have not had problems so I'm going to stick with what works best for me!

For those who are interested, there is a Free Downloadable program that will delete your cookies, clear cache, everything in one shot & most here use it.

www.ccleaner.com

Hope this helped.

[MystedMoon]

Sorry! New to all of this! So do you want to enable cookies on your computer or what is the exact steps to clear cookies.

You want to be sure to have cookies enabled BEFORE logging into FC each & everytime.
On the Log-In page, you'll see below where you enter your email & PW, the statement about enabling cookies. There is a link in Blue that reads enable cookies. Click on it and it will give you directions for whatever Browser you're using as to what steps to take to enable your cookies or to see if they're already enabled.

[alissatucci]

see, now I clear cookies in between each and every offer and I get credited WAY more than I did in the beginning when I didn't do that.  BUT...I'm also leaving the last page open longer.  So I don't know what exactly is making them credit better now.

Either way, I have a fairly good credit completion rate and I'm afraid to mess with my "routine" haha

[MystedMoon]

see, now I clear cookies in between each and every offer and I get credited WAY more than I did in the beginning when I didn't do that.  BUT...I'm also leaving the last page open longer.  So I don't know what exactly is making them credit better now.

Either way, I have a fairly good credit completion rate and I'm afraid to mess with my "routine" haha

Just goes with what I said about how some things work for some and some things works for others. It's weird but I think it has alot to do with the programs that are running in the background on peoples computers. May also just depend upon the computer itself. They are very tempermental machines! 

[jrsurveyor]

How Do I Clear My Cookies?


IE6:

1. Select "Tools" > "Internet Options" > "General" again.
2. Under the heading "Temporary Internet files," click on "Delete Cookies..."
3. Click "OK" for the "Delete all cookies in the Temporary Internet Files folder?" prompt.
4. Click "OK" to exit.

IE7:

1. Click on "Tools" > "Internet Options" > "General" again.
2. Click the "Delete..." button.
3. Under the heading "Cookies," click on "Delete cookies..."
4. Click "Yes" for the "Delete all cookies in the Temporary Internet Files folder?" prompt.
5. Click "Close" to exit.

Firefox 1.5 or earlier:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
2. Click on "Tools" > "Options" > "Privacy."
3. Click on "Cookies" > "Clear."
4. Select "OK" to exit.

Firefox 2.0:

1. Click on "Tools" > "Options" > "Privacy."
2. Under the "Private Data" heading, click on the "Clear Now" button.
3. Click "OK" to exit.
(shortcut = ctrl + shift + delete)

Netscape 7.x/Mozilla - Windows

1. Within Netscape, go to Tools | Cookie Manager | Manage Stored Cookies.
2. Click Remove All Cookies.

Netscape 7.x/Mozilla - Mac

1. Within Netscape, go to Tools | Cookie Manager | Manage Stored Cookies.
2. Click Remove All Cookies.
3. Click OK.

Safari 2.x

1. Open Safari and go to Safari | Preferences.
2. Click Security.
3. Click Show Cookies.
4. Click Remove All.

[jazzy3098]

Cleaning your cookies is not always the answer to the problem.  If you compleated a offer and have an email to prove you compleated it and have not gotten credit for it. Then you will be interested in my poll.  Please vote and leave your feed back.


Please vote on my Petition  -------------- This is all about telling Fusion Cash they need to take responcibility for the offers they place on there site.  They need to take responcibility to make sure that we get credited when we have proof that we compleated the offer.  (ie the conformation email from the offer showing that it was compleated.)

Bring Back Manual Credit Petition

http://www.fusioncash.net/forum.php?topic=1743.0

[tomkerrj]

hmmm clearing cookies i normally eat mine...lol it doesnt matter as most sites login the isp anywatys so it dont matter if you clear them every minute.

[RKylloe]

I agree.. sometimes I don't think it makes a difference. I think you should go to the page that says if your browser passed or not. I know when I log in on a different server it says failed and when I use firefox it says passed. So I think the problem lies within the server you are using when you log into Fusion. But then again.. everyone is saying something different.. it's so confusing.. isn't it? Some days I feel like its a %rapshoot on whether or not you are going to get credit for something. I really like this site.. just wish they could get that kink worked out for us.

[mlainez]

I'm am not too sure if that works, cuz I've tried both ...it seems to be going ok