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Often, you can delete the referral part from the URL. For example, take an Amazon link like this:
The tag=xxxx is the referral code. The xxxx can be letters or numbers and it doesn't have to be four. You can safely delete it from the link. Copy the link from the forum and paste it into your browser address bar. Before you hit Enter, you first remove the &tag=xxxx up to the next &.
In fact, the rest of the gibberish are mostly tracking codes that help Amazon and maybe the affiliate poster, not you. The only thing that matters for Amazon is the Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN). It's always 10 characters. In the link above it's the B078C51DJV. Even the article name ("Dormer-A9202-5-Machine-Bright-Diameter") is not necessary, it's only there for SEO purposes. You could simplify that link to
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078C51DJV
... and it will work just fine.
(Fun fact: Since the article name really doesn't matter, you could even create misleading links like https://www.amazon.com/Cheap-Toothpick/dp/B078C51DJV and it will still work!)
Most other links work similarly. Look out for anything like ref=xxxx, click=xxxx, aff=xxxx or something like that and remove it after copy/pasting the link.
If they use Bit.ly like this
then copy/paste again, but before you hit Enter, add a + at the end of the link like this:
https://bit.ly/2Ie8sqe+
It will take you to a preview page where you can see the real link destination. And if there are referral codes in that you can cut them out again as above.