-        access_token = self._download_json(
-            'https://www.discovery.com/anonymous', display_id, query={
-                'authLink': update_url_query(
-                    'https://login.discovery.com/v1/oauth2/authorize', {
-                        'client_id': react_data['application']['apiClientId'],
-                        'redirect_uri': 'https://fusion.ddmcdn.com/app/mercury-sdk/180/redirectHandler.html',
-                        'response_type': 'anonymous',
-                        'state': 'nonce,' + ''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_letters) for _ in range(32)]),
-                    })
-            })['access_token']
+        access_token = None
+        cookies = self._get_cookies(url)
+
+        # prefer Affiliate Auth Token over Anonymous Auth Token
+        auth_storage_cookie = cookies.get('eosAf') or cookies.get('eosAn')
+        if auth_storage_cookie and auth_storage_cookie.value:
+            auth_storage = self._parse_json(compat_urllib_parse_unquote(
+                compat_urllib_parse_unquote(auth_storage_cookie.value)),
+                video_id, fatal=False) or {}
+            access_token = auth_storage.get('a') or auth_storage.get('access_token')
+
+        if not access_token:
+            access_token = self._download_json(
+                'https://%s.com/anonymous' % site, display_id, query={
+                    'authRel': 'authorization',
+                    'client_id': try_get(
+                        react_data, lambda x: x['application']['apiClientId'],
+                        compat_str) or '3020a40c2356a645b4b4',
+                    'nonce': ''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_letters) for _ in range(32)]),
+                    'redirectUri': 'https://fusion.ddmcdn.com/app/mercury-sdk/180/redirectHandler.html?https://www.%s.com' % site,
+                })['access_token']