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Originally Posted by NightBird
Or you can just not click through the affiliate link but go to the store and search on the title and just copy and paste that link, same as you would have to do if you were posting links from multiple stores anyway, right? You wouldn't have affiliate links for all the different stores for one item most likely. Then you don't have to worry about deleting anything. I personally rarely click through affiliate links.
You all are making this way too complicated.  |
Aaah, but the way I read some of the posts on this in the original stickie thread, and especially for Amazon, if I HAD clicked on an affiliate link sometime in the last 24 hours, and hadn't done any of the things rumoured to end the "session" such as buy something non-digital (and I note that even the experts in that thread don't seem to be totally sure about what does and doesn't end a session), I might still have that tag somehow embedded in my supposed "direct search" link. And thus I have to check, or risk being called a liar. And that is both a hassle (the checking), and a bit offensive (being called a liar) to me.
And I do click on affiliate links since I don't mind "tipping" the folks who do the work of finding the bargains for me, so this would be a real risk.
JMTCW...I'm sure lots of other folks won't mind having to check their links before posting, or the assumption they must have had bad intentions if they do goof and post an evil affiliate link.
For me though, the simplest solution, if I do bother to post a deal in the future, is going to be to just post general info with no link, and let other readers have to search for it on their own. More hassle for them, but should be workable.