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Re:Books from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series by weaksauce on Saturday October 02, 2021 @07:13PM (#28732982)
1. it puts into question their recommendations.

2. it creates an incentive to put these spam articles all over the place which creates noise.

3. they could have disclosed it and then it would have been at least transparent.

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Re:Books from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series by WalterBright on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:10PM (#28733949)
Let's say they have a financial incentive. In order to increase their revenues through affiliate links, they'll need to please their clickers. Because then the clickers will come back and click on more links, and recommend the site to their friends.

I.e. a financial incentive increases the incentive for the owner to create good links. No incentive means why should they care?

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Re:Books from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series by weaksauce on Sunday October 03, 2021 @05:55PM (#28740833)
No it doesn't since clicking on a link thinking that it's a free resource and getting tricked will "taint" your amazon account for a 24 hour period. if they spam it enough and trick enough people to click on it it's not dependent on writing good "copy"
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