Are they stealing my commissions?
Right now I'm using Pretty Link to cloak my affiliate links, but I've noticed that when I click on my cloaked affiliatelink, it shows my affiliatelink for a sec in the browser and then it lands on the actual url of the merchants landing page, without my affiliatelink still showing.
I thought that was normal, until I've read a thread on stealing commissions and how cloaking links can cause you to lose your commission. Someone mentioned in a thread that when the affiliate link provides redirects, logs the cookie, and then lands on the actual url landing page of the merchant's site without your affiliate link still showing, it could be very well that I'm losing commissions.
Is that true?
I don't think it has something to do with Pretty Link. I did a test and removed a few cloaked links and replaced them by those ugly affiliate links and the same thing happens.
Am I stressing over nothing or are they really stealing my commissions?
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