this must be a troll :s

The fundamentals of Link Cloaking & how & why to cloak a link. Cloaking your affiliate links is of the most essential thing you ought to do in case you are in to affiliate promotion. Cloaking affiliate links is important to protect your affiliate income since most of the visitors are reluctant to click affiliate links & also using bare affiliate links without cloaking it poses a high risk of commission theft.

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yes link cloaking is also use for re-direction purpose, so if some other plugin is doing same thing then why not.

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Mary Ann