Ask HN: How do Tumblr & Posterous make money?

Re:Ask HN: How do Tumblr & Posterous make money? by Tichy on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @12:19PM (#1633284)

I seem to remember that Posterous tested changing outgoing links to go through a affiliate program proxy. Not sure if they kept it up.

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Re:Ask HN: How do Tumblr & Posterous make money? by staunch on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @05:39PM (#1634250)

I just checked. They do appear to still be doing that.

a4agarwal's response at the time http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309849

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Re:Ask HN: How do Tumblr & Posterous make money? by Tichy on Thursday August 26, 2010 @06:55PM (#1637411)

Opinions obviously differ widely on that one. To me it is unacceptable, especially if done in such a sneaky way. Other people seem to be fine with it. If enough people who are fine with it become their customers, why not.

I don't think they announced this big when they rolled out their massive "all other blogs are stupid" campaign...

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