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What is wrong with the following set up?

domain.com/index.html --> Adult Content Warning
Click 'Enter' and go to domain.com/tour
/tour goes to biller A
/index.html is the ONLY place on the entire site that links to /tour

EVERY other link on the site goes to domain.com/preview
/preview is where ALL affiliates are tracked.
/preview goes to biller B

I am told this allows for traffic leaking and screwing over affiliates. I can kind of see the point, except that the visitor would have to physically alter, type, or click a link that goes to domain.com/index.html in order to even see the other tour as there are 0 links on the site that go to domain.com/index.html. I get that it's possible, but most porn surfers I think don't bother typing, they click click click. I came to this conclusion due to only 5% of my traffic even ever goes to the /index.html page.

Yet, I am told that this cheats affiliates. I do not want to cheat affiliates at all, but I still don't get it.

How is the above any different than having multiple tours who, say, track to multiple billers and their affiliate program(s)? As far as I can tell, this is common practice (having multiple tours). But I cannot see how it is any different than above...

Especially when the affiliate in question cursed me out for trying to improve our site (we're going integrating to NATS atm) and even told me to just have a separate tour for this biller, a different tour for that biller, so on and so forth... So I cannot for the life of me get what his exact point is.

Nonetheless, I have replaced the single /tour link with a /preview link as I don't want to lose affiliates (even though this guy spazzed out like a child and claimed to have pulled all of my links already, even though I tried explaining my side.. all he did was spazz and curse me out more...

So, would someone mind explaining to me, in at least a half intelligent manner, how one is any different than the other?

Thanks