Dear all, i've been told of some VPN services that are funding themselves by "spoofing" the referral ID in their users traffic, for hundreds of different websites for which they made an agreement for Referral / Affiliate Marketing, when they earn a commission.
I'm wondering if that couldn't be a very interesting model also for TorBrowser, whereby the TorBrowser would automatically inject a referral ID (in the HTTP header or URL parameters), whenever a user connect to a certain amount of sites when they can buy something, and whenever the user buy something, the Tor Project Inc. get back a commission a way of financing the organization. That kind of model could be implemented with a custom plug-in within the Tor Browser. I don't see any risks for the end-users because: * For the end-user there would be no difference, as he would buy anyway what he want to buy at the same price. * If the end-user is buying something, he's already giving up his identity details to the shopping site * The website of the shop (being Amazon or others) will anyhow be able to identify that the user is coming from Tor network by looking at the IP address, so there would be no private information disclosure. What i don't know, is how many persons buy stuff online by using the Tor Browser!? -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org - https://ahmia.fi -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
