Affiliate research rooms

I look at public offer pages and disclosures in a profile that has never held a network login or a pixel I fire. No cloaking. No self-click. Notes go in a document I own.

The useful caveat: this is the look desk for programs you already joined or pages a visitor can already see. Ecommerce accounts on one PC is the pillar. Affiliate self-clicks are fraud.

Cold means empty

Empty cookies. No dashboard. No PayPal. PayPal business versus personal rooms. No store admin. Shopify multi-store isolation. No Amazon seller. Antidetect browsers for Amazon is not a research bot. No Airbnb host login. Airbnb listing isolation.

Dashboards stay in affiliate dashboard isolation. Cloaking kits stay out. Affiliate extensions we refuse.

MaskWright 0.1: Windows 10/11, empty user-data-dir. No Playwright product. Cookie import is plaintext. I import nothing. Optional HTTP or SOCKS5 if the desk already uses a looking exit. Do not attach the dashboard's sticky exit.

How I look

Open the public URL without my affiliate ID when I can. If the only URL I have is tagged, I still do not complete a conversion I keep. I do not run a scraper in this profile.

When cold gets burned (you signed into the network "just to copy a creative ID"), I start a new empty profile.

How I look at offers on Windows

The cold profile is acme-aff-look. Empty cookies. No dashboard password in the manager if I can keep it out. No publisher pixel. Optional looking-proxy that is not the dashboard sticky line.

I open the advertiser's public site or a disclosure page. I write notes in a doc. I screenshot into ops. I do not append my affiliate ID "just to confirm tracking." Confirming tracking is how people self-click.

If the only URL I have is tagged, I still do not check out. I do not add to cart as a fake buyer. I ask the network for a preview.

When I signed into the dashboard from this folder by mistake, I burn it. New uuid. Empty. The old folder is not cold anymore even if I click logout.

Cloaking kits stay off the unpacked list. MaskWright will load whatever I put in extensions/. I put nothing that rewrites landing pages.

Store admin and Amazon seller stay other profiles. This folder does not ship labels and does not open Seller Central.

FAQ

Can I screenshot competitors' funnels?

Public pages, yes, into ops storage. Do not install their pixel in your dashboard profile by accident. Do not scrape behind a login you do not have.

Is this the same as a scraping browser?

No. Headed looking at public HTML. MaskWright is not a scraping product.

Cloaking "for split tests"?

No. If the network forbids cloaking, a local profile is not a costume.

Cloud research?

The vendor sees the looking. I keep even research local when I can. Compare local versus cloud.

Can I log into the network from the cold profile to copy a creative ID?

That burns cold. Copy the ID from the dashboard profile, paste it into a doc, look at the public page without your click ID.

Look at what visitors already see. Keep that looking out of dashboards, payouts, and store admin.

I skip tagged "preview" clicks I intend to keep, cloaking extensions, and cloning the dashboard folder to make a fake visitor. I start empty. I stop at login walls I was not invited through. I burn the uuid if I signed into the network by mistake.

I keep a text file of public URLs without query IDs. That list is the research queue. If a marketer drops a tagged link in chat, I strip the ID before I open it here, or I do not open it. Cold stays cold only if the URL is actually public.

If a landing page 404s, I note it and I move on. I do not retry through my tagged link to "see the live funnel." A 404 is not permission to self-click.

More notes sit under Ecommerce. Download MaskWright for a local empty profile.