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Originally Posted by eschwartz
That shortlink referral tag tells amazon that someone used their amzn.com domain as a shortlink... 
The tag = "hey I came from amzn.com!"
But it was good detective work. |
No detective work involved. Clicked the link and saw what looked like a referral tag in the browser bar. Search refs are easy to identify because of their format. This type, not so much apparently.
I should probably also point out that link shorteners are also frowned upon on MR. Normally it's because you can't see where they go, but in the case of amazon, they can hide referral tags. I know this not because I dislike affiliates, but because I
am an affiliate who gets annoyed that Amazon makes it so difficult for me to figure out if I'm posting a clean link or not.
Which reminds me that I need to go cancel my affiliate account because I don't use it anymore.
Edited to add: I apologize for the mis-identification. Meant to include that in my post but my mind got sidetracked in my musings on the affiliate program.