Prop Firm Bridge

If you are in Prop Trading, you saw the cookie story, and now this update. I read it 3 times, and honestly it made it worse. So let's go point by point, because traders deserve the truth, not a PR statement. You say many claims came before the full facts. But the video that started all this is public. Fresh private window, Decline pressed on your cookie banner, then one click on a firm's name to open your own review page. Your page opened in a new tab, and the original tab quietly went to the firm through your affiliate link. No visit click, no buy click. Just a trader trying to read a review. And an analysis of archived copies of your own site shows it running from at least November 2025. Almost a year. Not a bug that slipped in last week. You say it needed a user click. A click to read your review page is not a yes to get sent through your affiliate link. If that counts as consent, then nothing means anything. You say it only opened the firm the trader selected. The trader selected your review page, not the firm's site. That is the whole point, and you know it. Now think about that Decline button. In Europe and the UK, affiliate tracking cookies need the user's yes, that is the whole reason that button exists. The user said no. And still got sent through an affiliate link. So what was that button even for? You say no hidden iframes. Nobody needed one. A tab quietly swapped behind a new one, so you never see it happen, is hidden enough. You say it was only on your own website. That is exactly the problem. It was on the site traders trust to compare firms honestly. You say prices didn't change. That was never the question. The question is who got the credit, and who got paid. You say the last click or code usually gets the credit. But another trader says their recording shows no other link at all, that trader later went to the firm through Google and your MATCH was already sitting at checkout. So you would get credit for a sale you never even sent. You say low single-digit percentage. Percentage of what one of the biggest sites in this space earned, for almost a year. That is real money. And that money was meant for someone else. The small creator who makes honest videos at night after his job, who will never even know his credit went somewhere else. So let me ask the simple questions. If this was innocent, why did it stop the same day the video went out, and not one day before? If it was a small thing, why did one firm CEO say they caught it back in August, and why did around 20 firms walk away within days? If affiliates are not allowed to force cookies under your own partner rules, why was your own site allowed to? Years back, in the eBay case, people went to prison over cookie stuffing. I am not saying this is the same. But there is a reason this industry treats it this seriously, and a "low single-digit percentage" doesn't make it small. Another firm founder said they were paying $10k a month just to be listed with you. Firms paid you to be seen, traders trusted you to be fair, and creators trusted the system to give them their credit. All three got let down. Yes, it is switched off now. But switching it off after getting caught is not an apology. Share the full numbers, per firm and per creator, and pay back every cent. That is the only update that matters. And traders, this one is off now, but don't blindly trust any site, us included. Every now and then click around the sites you use and watch your tabs. If a tab opens that you never asked for, now you know.