Hi Lori,
I barely do any affiliate marketing myself and never work with LinkShare. I mainly do consulting for merchants and promote their programs.
If it's one or 2 merchants, you could check to see if they are on any well known parasite merchant lists. Also there is a thing you can add to LS links that is supposed to make parasites NOT overwrite your link. It's something like afrc=1 or something like that. You need to go to ABW and search for it. I don't go there, so can't research for you.
But chances are if you promote LOTS of merchant there and your sales went down for all of them, then it could be increased ad blockers and cookie eaters targeting LS links or it could be a LS tracking issue. I would go over to the LS forum at ABW and ask there, as well as read the threads to see if you see others reporting the same.
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