Tracked referral links
How Aflink's first-party tracked links work, and why they keep attributing sales through ad-blockers and Safari ITP.
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Every creator gets a clean /r/ link per product the moment they join a campaign. Behind that link is a first-party token that lives for 30 days, logged server-side so ad-blockers and Safari ITP can't strip it.

What makes them reliable
- A first-party aflink_ref cookie set on the brand's own domain.
- Server-side click logging, not a fragile client-side pixel.
- A signed attribution field that rides the order through to checkout.
- A salted IP fallback that recovers the match if the cookie is missing.
