Support Questions:Is there an option that gives me the ability to block referrers for all my links
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You can block advertisers from receiving referral URLs from affiliates by enabling the Hide Referrals setting. You can enable this setting by hovering over Company tab and selecting Customize Application. Then select the Tracking settings page. Enabling this Hide Referrals features removes the referral URL from affiliates’ traffic before sending it to the advertisers offer.
This function uses a double meta refresh - two meta refreshes - to remove referral URLs from affiliate traffic sources. Your network's ad servers respond to tracking link requests on your tracking domain first. Then the ad server redirects back to itself with a meta refresh (first meta refresh). It is best to have a custom tracking domain setup. Finally the redirect page on you tracking domain redirects the user to the offer URL using a second meta refresh.
This double meta refresh method effectively removes affiliate referral URLs and blocks advertisers from seeing referral URLs of affiliate traffic sources, however not a Double Meta Refresh doesn't work in all browsers such as Chrome, Opera, and Safari, the steps our hiding referrals takes to ensure referrals are hidden for all browsers
Our system does up to 4 refreshes - not just two meta refreshes - to hide referrals.
Step 1
First one does a meta refresh to itself.
Step 2
If referral blank or set as tracking domain, redirect to offer url.
If there is still a referral set, it does a javascript redicect back to itself
Step 3
If referral blank or set as tracking domain, redirect to offer url.
If there is still a referral set, it does an auto form submit back to itself
Step 4
If referral blank or set as tracking domain, redirect to offer url.
If there is still a referral set, it goes to a page that says "Click to Continue" which makes the redirect page the referral when the user clicks.
Less than 0.5% (1/2 of a percent or less) make it to the 4th refresh. The redirects are usually cleared with the first two, the third javascript clears most remaining.
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