Re:Pinterest quietly modifying users links to generate affil...
by spacemanaki on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @10:13PM
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Does Stack Overflow also do this, at least with Amazon links? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong because I wouldn't want to spread misinformation. But IIRC Amazon links turn into something like "rads.stackoverflow.com/..." which I always assumed were affiliate. I think it's pretty reasonable, as others have pointed out.
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Re:Pinterest quietly modifying users links to generate affil...
by ak86 on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @07:10AM
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Yup, Stack Overflow does do that: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting... and http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising...