Click Bank and Affiliate protection

There are numerous products in the market that claim to cloak your affiliate id so that no body can steal your commission.

Their example says for example if the affiliate link you see is

http://hop.clickbank.net/?gra27/daycare

and you change the gra27 to say myid
the sale will then get attributed to myid rather than gra27, who is the rightful commission owner.

I just read that from 7th August Click bank has improved their security and even if the affiliate id in the url is changed the credit goed to the original person, of course unless you delete your cookies and then change the affiliate id to your own.

My question is what do you think the future of such products is now that click bank is more secure?

Any opinions?

> There are numerous products in the market
> that claim to cloak your affiliate id so
> that no body can steal your commission.

It seems to me, the only people who know about changing the affiliate ID are those in the Internet Marketing Get Rick Quick field. Normal people don't know about these things.

So the only people these affiliate cloaking softwares ever stopped, where other marketers of similar products.

Almost no-one in fields out side of Internet Marketing Get Rick Quick knew about how to steal an affiliate's ID.

WHat this means is: sell stuff that is not related to the Internet Marketing Get Rick Quick field and you won't have to worry about having your affiliate ID stolen.

Will Clickbank's new security put an end to affiliate cloaking software? I doubt it. The affiliate stealers are pretty savvy. So the software will have to overcome their savvyness.

Michael Ross