Vet an affiliate offer before you buy traffic
See whether the lander in the network’s preview is the one your traffic reaches from the target geo and carrier.
Cloaking checker: see the page real visitors get
A cloaker shows reviewers, bots and first-time visitors a safe page and sends everyone else somewhere else. This check arrives as a real visitor, from a real mobile or residential IP, and can skip the first visits so the hidden page shows.
How cloaking works, and how to see through it
Cloaking decides what to serve from what it can see about the visitor: the IP and who owns it, the user agent, the fingerprint, whether this is the first visit from the address, and often the referrer or a click id. Datacenter IPs, headless browsers and known checker fingerprints get the safe page. A phone on a mobile carrier gets the money page.
A checker that runs from a cloud server with a scripted browser is exactly what a cloaker filters out. It reports the safe page and calls the link clean.
OfferProbe tests from residential and mobile carrier exits in the country you choose, with a full browser fingerprint that matches the device you pick. With an account, skip-visits open the link several times with a fresh fingerprint each time before the visit that is recorded, so a cloaker that only switches after the first hit is caught on the one that counts.
How it works
- 01
Paste the link and pick the audience
The country and, if the offer is carrier-locked, the carrier; the device and browser the ads target.
- 02
Set skip-visits
With an account, choose how many visits to burn before the recorded one, up to 20, each with a fresh fingerprint.
- 03
Compare what came back
The chain, the final URL and the screenshot show the page served to that visitor; a different page from a different setting is the cloak.
What you get
- The real final page
- The URL and, with an account, a screenshot of what the visitor was actually shown.
- The chain that led there
- Every redirect on the way, so the point where a cloaker branches is visible.
- The exit and fingerprint used
- The IP, carrier, connection type and the exact device fingerprint the visit was made with, so the finding can be reproduced.
- A verdict against your expectation
- Name the page you expect and the result says working or wrong destination in one word.
What people check with it
Check your own campaigns for compliance
Confirm a pre-lander shows the same page to a first visitor and a returning one, before an ad network’s reviewer does.
Investigate a drop in conversions
When clicks flow and installs stop, test from the exact carrier: a cloaked swap to a different offer shows up as wrong destination.
Questions
What is link cloaking?
Serving a different page depending on who is visiting. In affiliate marketing it usually means a compliant page for reviewers and bots and a different offer for the paying audience. Some cloaking is benign, like a geo redirect; some hides a page an ad network would reject.
Why do other checkers miss it?
They visit once, from a datacenter IP, with a scripted browser. Those three signals are what a cloaker keys on, so the checker is served the safe page and reports it.
What are skip-visits?
Extra visits made before the one that is recorded, each with a fresh fingerprint, to get past a cloaker that only switches pages after the first hit from a new visitor. They are an account feature; the free check makes one visit.
Can this detect cloaking on an ad landing page?
It shows you the page a real visitor from a given country, carrier and device receives. Compare that with the page the ad shows a reviewer, and any difference is the answer. It does not reach into the ad platform itself.
Is testing a link allowed?
A test opens a public link once, as a visitor would. Test links you are about to promote or are responsible for; do not use it to interfere with someone else’s campaigns.