"Im sure they use this method in order to hide affiliate links from search engines
and make the links search engine friendly"
That's part of the reason people cloak links, although I'm not sure
it makes them search engine friendly.
"as the issue here is not to hide the links from customers"
Not quite true. Some consumers are leary of affiliate links or long strange looking links. If you are sending a consumer to buy a camera at officedepot but the link looks like kwefytd.com/123zyzabcdefg or whatever, some people are afraid to click it. A link that looks like yoursite.com/officedepot could get better click-through rates. They don't necessarily connect that for you to give money back they have to click your affiliate link because they dont understand what affiliate marketing even is.
Make sense?
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