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Originally Posted by Harmon
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This is also one of those ways where lowlife's discover your affiliate ID and thus, already have half of your access information at the affiliate program. Further, for the people scraping your work, it's a simple rewrite to swap your id for theirs. Finally, many webmasters use the same login id, this also allows scrapers, hackers, etc the ability to search Google and create a profile of your affiliate business, which gives them a list of places to try to exploit.
Masking is just smart business all around.