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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
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.
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Don't worry, I totally understand. It is a very obscure piece of Amazon trivia, which I think is very cool and makes things much simpler (since in general all amazon links are full of garbage). I expect people not to recognize it, but in most other places, people won't actually check to see where my link is taking them... Possibly those unstoppable Internet Explorer users.
For future reference, everyone, amzn.com/{asin} is a short really compact way of linking to any amazon page with an asin, and provided by amazon itself, which they should really start using themselves maybe.