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Yes, those are definitely leaks.
Even worse are those affiliate tours with footers that ask the surfer to sign up for their mailings but don't mark those subscribers as your potential member. Then as soon as your 10-day (or less) cookie expires they email them strong offers with special discounts and lower price points than are offered on the affiliate tour. You sent them the surfer but you get no credit when they join that way.
Traffic leaks, social networking leaks, email address capturing, short cookie life, submitting their long video clips to tube sites... sometimes I think sponsors are testing to see how much underhanded dealing with affiliates they can get away with.
What ever happened to providing affiliates with absolutely clean, leak-free tours? Sponsors could do whatever they like on the public tour pages, but doing these kinds of things with affiliate traffic is reaching into the affiliate's pocket to take money that should belong to the affiliate.
At least that's my opinion.
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