Amazon does not allow cloaking the affiliate link?

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I was reading their TOS and found this:
30. You will not cloak, hide, spoof, or otherwise obscure the URL of your site containing Special Links (including by use of a redirecting page) or the user agent of the application in which Content is displayed or used such that we cannot reasonably determine the site or application from which a customer clicks through such Special Link to the Amazon Site.

So that means I am not allowed to cloak the Amazon affiliate links on my blog?
 
You can cloak your links as long as you make very clear to your visitors that the link point to amazon. For example, 'click here for more info' in not OK. 'click here to buy on amazon' is OK. Linking images to amazon using cloak links is not OK unless you include some kind of text on the image that the link point out to amazon. There is another section in the OA that clarifies link cloaking. Don't remember from the top of head where it is, but it's there. You have to read the whole thing.
 
You can cloak your links as long as you make very clear to your visitors that the link point to amazon. For example, 'click here for more info' in not OK. 'click here to buy on amazon' is OK. Linking images to amazon using cloak links is not OK unless you include some kind of text on the image that the link point out to amazon. There is another section in the OA that clarifies link cloaking. Don't remember from the top of head where it is, but it's there. You have to read the whole thing.
Oh, thanks. Just wanted to make sure before I start using them.
 
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