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New Hoplink Creator

Discussion in 'ClickBank' started by eagles325, Apr 27, 2009.

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    eagles325, Apr 27, 2009 IP
  2. alexs464

    alexs464 Well-Known Member

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    For some reason, I think that Clickbank messed things up - we just don't know yet.
    I think this encoding tool will make tracking even less accurate then it was ...

    Well, we'll see.
     
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    rolf Active Member

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    What is the point of this. Useless in my opinion. The resulting URL looks extremely spammy, like something in a phishing email. I sure won't be using it.
     
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  5. eagles325

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    Recently updated...

    "HopLink Shield Links Now Fully Operational
    2009-04-27

    As of 3:00 p.m. PT HopLinks created using HopLink Shield are fully functional."
     
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    hbl Well-Known Member

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    URL's that are too long and seem spammy
     
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    tanakanewyork Guest

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    It looks scary and awful, I think it will mess up my computer.
     
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    ericehng Peon

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    agree, very confusing and not reflect our ID:mad:
     
    ericehng, Apr 28, 2009 IP
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    Depend on your target market. If your target didnt know anything about affiliates system both link work..
     
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    It is utterly useless because of the fact that anyone with brains enough to find ClickBank website and do a little research can decode them back so I really don't see what's the point. If they change it in such a way so you can only decode your own hoplinks then it'll become something useful.
     
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    bl4ckmaN^ Well-Known Member

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    Now the links are freaking ugly.
     
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    Agreed with karabas, why have an encoder if they allow a decoder to be openly accessible to anyone. I'd suggest they only allow hoplinks to be decoded once logged in and only hoplinks tied to your account should be decodable(is that a word?).

    Otherwise, seems kind of pointless to me.
     
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    karabas Well-Known Member

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    cldnails,
    I first thought so too. However decoder is only part of the problem - you can still see affiliate ID on the checkout page...
     
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    I love new hoplink shield.
     
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    The hoplink encoder is supposed to protect you from affiliate link hijacking spyware programs. So it's not entirely bad!
     
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    Wow... Powerful protection indeed... ;)
    Try this (optionally you may want to substitute "encoded" link in the script with your own). Note: you'll need to have grep, sed and wget installed (unix style utils also available on windows):
    Takes under a second on my machine and that's to invoke 3 general purpose executables. Imagine how fast it will be it someone writes a specialized program to do it as they will. They should have at least put this page in password protected section of the website.
     
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    I believe clickbank was trying to help us by limiting the hijacking of our accounts. I am a bit confused by all the lengthy jibberish they seem to put in the new url's.
     
    Hoops4me, Apr 29, 2009 IP