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Re:Ask HN: In theory, how would you monetize HN? by jot on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @12:50PM (#2009000)
Building on that you could use http://viglink.com like Posterous has to convert all links that are potential affiliate links.

Would be interesting to see how many links that would actually apply to. My guess is that it would be a very small percentage.

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Re:Ask HN: In theory, how would you monetize HN? by 3dFlatLander on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @02:07PM (#2009343)
I was going to mention that, but I don't think it would mesh with HN that well. First, it would change everything to an affiliate link, not just amazon. More importantly, it doesn't seem to work with links you open in a new tab because it uses a lot of JS redirects (also, something people on HN may not find very attractive).
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