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I've managed to reestablish the GOG.com affiliation for RPGWatch, so we'll be starting to affiliate the links going to GOG again to help with the costs of running RPGWatch. Every sale made via an affiliated link will bring RPGWatch a few percent at no cost to yourself, making it a great way to support the site.
The RPGWatch "Channel ID" is: 1790615725
Regular GOG game page link example: https://www.gog.com/game/diablo
Affiliated GOG game page link example: https://af.gog.com/game/diablo?as=1790615725
As you can notice, you have to replace ‘www’ with ‘af’ in the link. You also have to add the channel ID to the URL, via a ‘as’ parameter.
Anyone can do this with GOG links posted on RPGWatch manually if they want to help out, but in the future I'll probably implement a solution that will affiliate all GOG links automatically.
Affiliated GOG home page link is: https://af.gog.com?as=1790615725
I'll also see about placing a GOG home page button somewhere.
Note: the affiliated links unfortunately trip certain overzealous ad blockers, such as uBlock Origin. The only way around it so to whitelist "adtraction.com" for RPGWatch, which GOG uses to track affiliate link sales, when the uBlock warning pops up when clicking on an affiliated link. If you select "Don't warn me again about this site", you only have to do it once, then click the "Proceed" button.
To emphasize, there is absolutely no danger or anything nefarious about the affiliated links. The only thing that is being tracked is RPGWatch's affiliation with GOG.com, so that they can properly attribute affiliated sales to us. uBlock blocks this simply because they block the tracking company AdTraction that GOG uses altogether, which unfortunately results in blocking such legitimate tracking uses as well.
The RPGWatch "Channel ID" is: 1790615725
Regular GOG game page link example: https://www.gog.com/game/diablo
Affiliated GOG game page link example: https://af.gog.com/game/diablo?as=1790615725
As you can notice, you have to replace ‘www’ with ‘af’ in the link. You also have to add the channel ID to the URL, via a ‘as’ parameter.
Anyone can do this with GOG links posted on RPGWatch manually if they want to help out, but in the future I'll probably implement a solution that will affiliate all GOG links automatically.
Affiliated GOG home page link is: https://af.gog.com?as=1790615725
I'll also see about placing a GOG home page button somewhere.
Note: the affiliated links unfortunately trip certain overzealous ad blockers, such as uBlock Origin. The only way around it so to whitelist "adtraction.com" for RPGWatch, which GOG uses to track affiliate link sales, when the uBlock warning pops up when clicking on an affiliated link. If you select "Don't warn me again about this site", you only have to do it once, then click the "Proceed" button.
To emphasize, there is absolutely no danger or anything nefarious about the affiliated links. The only thing that is being tracked is RPGWatch's affiliation with GOG.com, so that they can properly attribute affiliated sales to us. uBlock blocks this simply because they block the tracking company AdTraction that GOG uses altogether, which unfortunately results in blocking such legitimate tracking uses as well.
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