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Originally Posted by NightBird
You all are making this way too complicated.  |
I'm usually a direct-searcher myself, but the guide above was in response to a poster upthread who wanted to know where the affiliate stuff was contained in certain links and how much she could edit out without destroying the link entirely.
I agree that going straight to the website by typing in the URL yourself and then running the search using their own engine will practically guarantee a clean link* and is probably the easiest solution for most posters, even if it might take a little more time than just clicking through where they saw it first.
But for Amazon, it can save you time if you just grab the ASIN from the product page you're already on, type "www.amazon.com", stick a "/dp/" after that, and then paste on the ASIN instead of opening up a new tab and running a search and waiting for the results.
* Well, a fairly crufty link in Amazon's case because of that probably-tracking stuff they like to stick on, but otherwise one that's safe to use.