I use NextDNS for a DNS server; pretty sure they are blocking your links. Guess that’s the price I pay for blocking advertising DNS links and there is no easy way to turn it off. I’m not sure which DNS settings I actually changed, but just wanted to wish you well.
Yes, we’ve had that report before. Unfortunately its an industry wide issue with affiliate links. I definitely feel they are missused. People building website to farm affiliate links or sub-Reddits. It hurts genuine sites like ours, where we do actually get the laptops ourselves and painstakingly test them to provide good advice