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A comment on Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Shortened Links. Parent comment

Re:Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Shortened ... by ikeboy on Friday May 08, 2015 @09:13AM (#9511451)
Stackexchange converts outbound amazon links to affiliate ones. (see https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26964/auto-insertin...) Would that be the same?
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Re:Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Shortened ... by eli on Friday May 08, 2015 @05:52PM (#9514359)
Hey I'm just a guy. Maybe Amazon figures it's better to police affiliate links lightly or that a bit of a giveaway to SO isn't such a bad thing. If I ran an affiliate program I probably wouldn't allow that behavior.
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