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Originally Posted by anamardoll
ATDrake, that all seems perfectly reasonable to me. 
I will be interested to learn how to scrub links from all these different sources. Looking around, they're all not as simple as a tag on the end. I've seen urls with tags that are in the middle of a HUGE link. Can everything after the tag be deleted safely? I honestly don't know. |
Links can be at the end (safely lopped off), in the middle (may or may not break the link) or embedded in such a way that it's near impossible to remove (I've seen this in people who use an API call as their link and in some of the google stuff, where the link is a redirect, with the amazon info embedded where it is a pain to pull out.
With some links, all you have is a redirect (kobo, some types of B&N and iTunes links, etc). Once the redirect is expanded, there may or may not be additional affiliate info at the end (the daily link in arcdata's thread is an example of this).