Once upon a time, I noticed an affiliate marketer on Reddit that adopted a trick from phishing to try to drive more traffic to their site. They would pretend to be helpful by linking to "docs" (say, https://example.org/docs) but the actual link included went to their own domain (say, https://shitbag.lol/example). They would add affiliate tags and push you through to the site - quietly reaping affiliate commissions.
This is hilariously honest - not that they were being honest, but that they knew this was unwelcome and had to result to phishing tactics to trick people into clicking. Affiliate marketing is just the worst - and they know it too.
So, I decided to look into all deceptive links on Reddit - links whose text says [site a] but actually direct you to [site b].
Dumps soon(tm).