325596 - Hidden Affiliate Redirection When Joining Online Affiliate Programs

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Don Kransteuber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (ax)

When navigating to websites that offer affiliate programs, I have noticed that sites are "seeing" me as someone else's identity.

I fill out my own personal information in the affiliate sign up form, but I then see that I am being recognized as someone else. 

I have cleaned all cookies, used norton anti-virus and ran the latest edition of Webroot spysweeper.  No matter what I do I still see that someone named:

Joseph Vaccone - joein610

Is being credited with either referring me to that affiliate site, or is actualy being recoginzed as me.

This does not happen in other browsers like IE, so it's definitely something happening through Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit website - http://fta.firetrust.com/signup.cgi
2. View Referred by line.
3. Read who you are being referred by.


Actual Results:  
I continue to see that I am being referred by this unknown person.

Expected Results:  
Referred by should be blank.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I assume it is the address where you clicked the link to the site?
You can switch it off by typing about:config and setting network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0 but in that case a few sites wont work anymore (sporadically). 

Comment 2

[Don Kransteuber]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I assume it is the address where you clicked the link to the site?
> You can switch it off by typing about:config and setting
> network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0 but in that case a few sites wont work
> anymore (sporadically). 
> 

Hi - I ran a second sweep of all cookies, spywware and adware and now the issue appears to be resolved.  I'm assuming it was one of the above related items causing this to happen.

Thanks for following up so quickly!