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Re:How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant by 0xfaded on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:32AM (#25330903)
That's one view. But my view is that affiliate links have created a massive race to the bottom, polluting search results and creating a new style of prose optimized for inserting key words and links.

I may not be able to stop that, but I certainly don't want to support it.

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Re:How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant by Kalium on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:22PM (#25335197)
Yeah, one of the major issues with running an affiliate program is that there's a real risk that they wind up finding ways to claim your regular customers as theirs. You don't gain anything from such transactions, but they do.

The incentives of affiliates and principals aren't as fully aligned as might be hoped.

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