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Re:Amazon owns a whole collection of secret brands by taco_emoji on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:20PM (#14959403)
How would Amazon change the URLs on your article? More likely, if you didn't do it on purpose, is that Quartz's CMS automagically appends that tag into any Amazon.com links.
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Re:Amazon owns a whole collection of secret brands by komali2 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:04PM (#14959868)
Likely the writer is just that - a writer. He has demonstrated (harmless) ignorance of how tracking tags work. The other posters betting on the website he writes for automatically adding affiliate tags to amazon links is the most likely guess here.
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Re:Amazon owns a whole collection of secret brands by popinman322 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:50PM (#14975280)
Or Amazon may have added the tags as the writer was copying the URLs.

Honestly, it doesn't seem like something to fault the writer for.

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