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A comment on LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links. Parent comment

Re:LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links by jrockway on Thursday March 04, 2010 @10:04PM (#1168697)
What is Amazon going to do about a Russian company?
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Re:LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links by mbrubeck on Thursday March 04, 2010 @10:57PM (#1168781)
Cancel their affiliate account and refuse to pay any earnings from their referrals?
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Re:LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links by jrockway on Friday March 05, 2010 @02:21AM (#1168996)
Ah, I didn't know they were redirecting anyone to Amazon. I thought the blogger's referral codes were being removed from links.
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Re:LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links by mbrubeck on Friday March 05, 2010 @10:41AM (#1169591)
Yeah, they were removing bloggers' referral codes from Amazon links and substituting their own.
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Re:LiveJournal stripping users' affiliate links by pyre on Friday March 05, 2010 @12:49PM (#1169917)
It's unclear who that affiliate account is owned by. For all we know, that other company could just be providing the tools for LiveJournal to insert their own affiliate id.
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