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Originally posted by Nathan
You are correct, it is a base64 encoded string. And yes, you can modify the contents, but that would of course change the base64 string also, thus you would see the difference.
The base64 is not done for security, but for removing the plaintext contents of the variable. Via the base64 we get a clean a-zA-Z0-9 string from it.
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Sponsor X has 20 sites to promote. I have wm ID 10001.
If I click a particular link just to try it and I see that it redirects to 11111 instead. Pretty easy to spot, right?
If I would click a NATS link with my wm ID MTAwMBgyOjM6Ag and I would end up at MTAvMBgvOjM6Ag, not that easy to see unless you look at each character, right?
Since the sponsor has 20 different sites, you will never be able to remember your "code". You have to compare the codes side by side to see if it's the same.... which will never happen.
Would be heck of a lot easier to spot a simple redirect if the nats variable was "10001:3:2" instead or some other easy way to spot that it's actually my link code.
Just my
