Anything new in the world of link cloaker scripts?

There's nothing "black hat" about using redirects. Some people do use them for nefarious purposes. But if you want to post a link somewhere and you want the ability to change where it goes later, but you won't be able to change that link ever, then you NEED a redirect.

Unfortunately, most people don't think about the role that redirection plays in the world -- only "cloaking". I mostly use my links for redirection, not cloaking. And I want to be able to open a control panel and change the target of the redirect easily. None of the free online services let you edit your links once they're set. So they mainly cater to the "cloaking" crowd since they're static and unchangeable.

Redirection is like forwarding your phone calls. You can get a permanent phone number and forward it to whatever phone number you're at today. If you can't change the forwarding number, then you're screwed.

They're also great for tracking click-thru rates. Using naked URLs, you cannot track clicks. But if you use a redirect, the redirect logic can also collect statistics on clicks. Goo.gl does that, and a couple others do as well.

Strangely, virtually none of the services that DO collect and report statistics do any sort of useful analysis beyond just raw clicks over time. Goo.gl shows little graphs and a map of the countries where they originated.

In my personal opinion, throwing up naked URLs when you're trying to market a product or service is like driving a car cross-country with a blind-fold on. You have no idea where you're at from one minute to the next; you have no way to change direction; you don't know your conversion rates (sales per click); and you have no way of determining how to improve your profits.

That's what most people call "basic business tactics" not "black hat techniques".

What does this do that is remarkable? All of the cloaked links made in the videos don't work. What can this do that the hundred or so cloaking scripts before it can't do?

I hate to tell you this, but if your affiliate link isn't showing up at the bottom of Clickbank sales pages, you aren't gonna get a commission. You are not going to find a "link cloaker" that can "fix" this without losing all of your commissions.

In RAP, there are a lot of users who've make a pretty big stink about the fact that their affiliate ID is NOT visible anywhere during the check-out process! It makes them very nervous not knowing who exactly is getting credited for the sale, even though in many cases it's obvious -- but not always.

I think if most CB affiliates preferred that their aff ID not be shown, CB would hide it. But without it, you have no idea who's getting the credit for the sale EVER.

Sure, if you consider serving someone else's content from your server to be "advanced". Without permission to do so though, it's copyright infringement. If you do have permission, you might as well just get permission to serve a copy of the page the regular way and eliminate anything which might be considered cloaking as that would be unnecessary.

There was another cloaking product some years ago which grabbed the affiliate page using file_get_contents and then echoed it out. The owner of the product did not seem to understand how this could be considered copyright infringement. He claimed that since the site was never stored on his server (it was, if even for a millisecond) that he wasn't serving someone else's content. His script essentially proxied other people's content while also stuffing a cookie, which I'm guessing is what the above mentioned script does.

Affiliates should beware of these types of scripts.