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Affiliate shopping plugins and adware hurt everyone in the affiliate marketing channel (besides the software owner). The most significant problem is overriding clicks... Another major issue is that "parasiteware" sets an affiliate cookie even in the case that the customer was brought to the merchant's site by other marketing channels, such as SEO, PPC, or email marketing.