Hello guys, I did some investing because I think something fishy is going around on this host. Because I am still in probation and I cannot post images/links I am gonna make your life harder a bit with the links becuase I switched . with (dot), but it will be well worth, just remove spaces and add dots to the links.
Randomly, when I registered on FJ I clicked on one of the payment methods just to check it out and closed it right after that, then after half an hour a mail was sent to me, and it said the following:
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Dear Customer,
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So going on filejoker (dot) net/premiumdiscount is cool, it gives 30% more days, but I noticed that it removes the cookies from the affiliate that was sharing the file that you beforehand clicked and potentially future-blocking it if you really want to download it without 30% additional days directly off the user.
In a classic scenario this happens, a customer goes to filejoker to download your file and he sees that there is less wait times and a tad faster speed if he just free registers, he registers of course and most of the time when he chooses not to use lets say a program like JDownloader, he will be forced to wait for 90 seconds while loading (because FJ doesn't load the times otherwise), in that time because you look at basically nothing interesting, out of boredom he is going to want to see what are the payments, he clicks on one, just sees it, and closes it. He then receives a mail about the discount. So some day this customer of yours chooses to buy a premium and instead buying it off your affiliate link he will go and open this filejoker (dot) net/premiumdiscount link that filejoker has sent to him a while ago. Or sometimes maybe the payment will really fail, or some users will just get disconnected, so after that they will receive a mail and will just use that instead of your link because of the great deal. This basically cuts your sales by a lot.
This same mail is always re-send to me when I "fail" to purchase.
So I would've asked you guys if maybe the purchase still works, and it shares the profit with the affiliate sharing the file, but that would not make any sense because it literally removes and replaces the cookies on the website with new that are named PROMO instead of your affiliate file ones, I used an addon called View Cookies on Firefox and when you right click a page and go to View Page Info, you click on the the last tab (it has this pretty cookies icon, which is the addon) it shows the cookies on the website.
Test it yourself, you will need Firefox addon View Cookies (for chrome I haven't tested, so google it), some shared file, and the link filejoker (dot) net/premiumdiscount.
I used a file on forumphilia as an example for this post: filejoker (dot) net/4bdooyo9k3s9
I cleaned the cookies off the website (by using this addon, and going right click somewhere on the actual site > View Page Info > Cookies > Remove all cookies in this list and reopened the FJ file link in a new Firefox instance, so I got these stats:
imgur (dot) com/c11ibFB
And this is normal, everything is great, the cookies last 2 weeks, blah, blah.
So after that I went to the link off the mail (you don't need to go to the actual mail and check it, just type filejoker (dot) net/premiumdiscount. The link with additional more days pops for you, I went to check the cookies by the same method of right clicking on the website > View page info> Cookies. And boom, these are the stats:
imgur (dot) com/QTKIKKk
This is pretty bad.
So at this point the job is done, you lost a sale I guess, but to be sure I checked what if you just went to the same or another link and see if that will change. And it does, but it still has some value 0 at the aff place:
imgur (dot) com/uDFMLvK
which I do not know if it really blocks the affiliate from getting a share on the sale, but regardless, why would anyone buy it off your link if he has 30% additional days on this pretty premium discount link that FJ gave it to him.
So guys, if someone can do a real actual test, or just see if they ever received this mail in the past (you will receive it if only you click on a payment method and close the page (I think that they are not sending a mail if you open and close the bitcoin method, but I am not sure) just like that, and I am not sure if this is disabled for affiliate accounts, but it makes total sense to actually be, so try with a new account, because I haven't tested with an actual affiliate account myself).
Lastly, I think that the registering bonuses are added because of this reason, as a marketing trick to lure customers into buying off their links only by sending email after they register for the useless speed boosts. Sorry for the links, there was no other way of posting.
