So in this thread somebody posted a link to a Craftsman low-profile aluminum jack. The link looked like this:

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00950239000P

When I right-click and select "copy link", this is what gets put into my clipboard:

http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=812124&st=0&&dr_log=-1&linkout=http%3A//www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00950239000P

And when I actually click on the link it takes me to:

http://clickserve.cc-dt.com/link/tplclick?lid=41000000001360343&pubid=2100000000017 5726&mid=5336121756efqg4jdss7&redirect=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.sears.com%2Fshc%2Fs%2Fp_10153_12605_00950239 000P

The last gives me an error because my hosts file is configured to redirect clickserve.cc-dt.com, as well as a large number of other ad and tracking domains, to 127.0.0.1.

What I'm really wondering, though, is if s2ki is changing links to get referral dollars, or if there's some adware installed on my computer I don't know about. This happens ONLY with links on s2ki.

 

Yes, we change some links to redirect to affiliate program aware URLs. The service we use just got bought so I suspect that is why you are seeing this now.

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