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You have to enable the typo option and the amazon referrer rewrite happens. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
by engtech 13y ago
You have to enable the typo option and the amazon referrer rewrite happens.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194
- drchaos 13y agoI think the word "rewrite" is misleading in that context. ABP does not rewrite existing referrers (which would in fact be "mafia style"), instead it adds its own referrer when correcting/rewriting links with a typo: amazon.com/?tag=someReferrer will not be changed amazon.comm will be rewritten to amazon.com/?tag=uf024-20
- bdcravens 13y agoNot much better, arguably worse. If my intention was to go to Amazon.com, they're now "helping" me and writing a cookie that wouldn't have been there, and earning $ in the process. A bare WWW request should never result in affiliate income.
- DanBC 13y agoI tend to agree with you, but I'd be happy for Pinterest to convert any non-affiliate links to affiliate links. They'd need to make it very clear what they were doing before doing it. I get value from Pinterest's collection, so I'm happy for them to skim a little bit of money from my purchase. Shopping is hellish, and Pinterest makes it easier for me. I am aware that they got into trouble for using skimlinks to convert links. (I think they were converting affiliate links to their affiliate links which is pretty dodgy.)