For creators

The problem

You have an Amazon Associates tag. It sits in a description box under one video, or in a pinned message that scrolled away an hour ago. Someone who wants to support you has to remember it at the exact moment they happen to be buying something, and that is never the same moment.

What this is

theircookie.com/yourname. One page with your name and face on it and one button. A viewer presses it once, and anything they put in their Amazon cart over the next 24 hours earns you a referral fee, whenever they get round to actually ordering it. Because it is a plain URL it goes in a stream panel, a bio, a pinned post, a channel topic or a bookmark, and it keeps working without you touching it again. Nothing to install, and nothing for your audience to sign up for.

What it costs your audience

Nothing. Amazon pays the referral fee out of its own margin, and the price is identical either way. Most orders arrive through no link at all, in which case the fee is never created and nobody is paid. That is the case this replaces.

What we take

Nothing. Amazon pays you directly, into your own Associates account. The button carries your tag and nothing else: no redirect hop, no click tracker, no parameters of ours riding along.

We cannot substitute our tag for yours at checkout, because we do not have one. There is no company tag anywhere in this product to fall back to. If we ever ship a browser extension it will hold no tag either, it will stay silent whenever it can see that a creator has already been credited, and it will never send anyone to Amazon without them pressing a button with a creator's name on it.

The part nobody tells you

Amazon credits the last Associates link a shopper clicked, for 24 hours. So your link replaces whatever came before it, and something else can replace yours afterwards. No website can read that cookie or protect a referral, and anyone selling you otherwise is describing something a web page cannot do.

To get listed

Add your Associates tag on your atme page. You appear here the moment it is set, and you disappear the moment you remove it. You must also list theircookie.com in your own Amazon Associates account, which Amazon's operating agreement requires for every site your links appear on.