Affilate text links using Short Code > remove blank line?

First, thank you for this plugin. I’ve been using it for years.

I want to use affiliate links more often in my posts and organize them using this plugin. I was thinking using the Short Code Ads future for this. However, it ads an extra blank line before the code.

So can I use WP insert to ad text-links within the text content of a post? Can I somehow remove the extra blank line?