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How Exactly Do People Steal Other's Affiliate Commissions?

by David Braybrooke
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I know that link cloaking is always advised but exactly how are the affiliate commissions lifted? Only asking for preventative reasons.

Is the hoplink altered, with an affiliate's ID adjusted or redirected? If this is so then surely an affiliate would notice, at some point, the tampered with link. I understand about the 'last-cookie-wins' scenario but can long-term affiliate profits be stolen from the one link? And by multiple thieves?

Surely hoplinks cannot be redirected (through vandalism) to other sites, then redirected back to the merchant's page? Or can they?

Confused .... o_0

P.S. I have researched this online but still cannot find a definitive answer.
#affiliate #commissions #people #steal
  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    Illustration:

    You promote a CB product with your CB hop (ID) - let say: "cowboy". A visitor find your offer and want to buy it. He knows this product is using your CB hop. Then he want to save his money or get the discount. He clears cookies of his internet browser and he replaces his own CB hop - ley say: "xyz". Once he makes payment to the CB, the CB tracks this sales made by hop "xyz", not your hop "cowboy". So you won't get commission. Commission will be the buyer with his CB account.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Braybrooke
    Thank you Himanuzo but that pre-supposes that the buyer is au fait with affiliate marketing protocol. What percentage of the wider buying public knows this stuff? I'd hazard a guess and say, not too many. Regards.
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    I don't know about the percentage. You are right, I am sure that buyers not much. However, the affiliate cloaking technique can increases sales.
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveSRS
    The example himanuzo gave is correct but in his example he is talking about one occurrence..

    What happens is criminal organizations create malware which infects hundreds of thousands (up to millions) of computers and massivle do what was explained earlier
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