I've never tried cloaking before but I probably will one day. When I was playing around with the classic mobile/pops combo (the usual verticals: sweeps/AV/installs/Casual Dating) I noticed in Adplexity pretty much ALL the landing pages that had been running for more than a week were either very borderline compliant or off-the-charts aggressive. I find it hard to believe that affiliate managers are blind to the fact that a majority of their converting traffic is coming from cloaked/non-compliant pages. If you're new at this game and you're not willing to risk burning bridges with one of the most important relationships affiliate's have (the networks) then you're operating a huge competitive disadvantage if you are limited to compliant landers.
So when it's time to cloak what is the best approach? Don't ask/Don't tell? Do other people actually discuss this openly with their AMs?
I'd love to hear from some actual AMs on this topic though I understand it would be difficult for them say anything publicly other than "don't cloak it's evil and we'll ban you". But perhaps they could answer this question at least? Do you think that majority of your converting traffic in these verticals is really coming from compliant landers?
I found the same thing using Adplexity for sweeps, pretty much every single landing page was cloaked using Google logos, or you've 10000% won an iphone that sort of thing which for anyone starting out makes it pretty hard to utilize. There are some offers out there that you can use more aggressive landers for, but the majority seem to be tied down with a lot of things you can't do, yet as you say all the ones pushing large volumes of traffic do use non compliant ones.
I've reposted this thread in the general forum here.