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Old 12-23-2014, 10:08 PM   #60
eschwartz
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I hope not. I find them obnoxious.
I find the fact that you care to be obnoxious.

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We do have code in place to automatically unshorten the amzn link when clicked upon, which would technically be required to add the tag. It's not optimized yet because it would query Amazon's servers for the full URL every time a user views a post containing such a link. That would slow down user experience, which nobody wants. We might make it work in the future by adding some caching functionality.
There really isn't a way to simply add it as an alternative domain?

http://amzn.com/B000QTEA3I
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QTEA3I/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

MR should edit those to be
http://amzn.com/B000QTEA3I?tag=mr060-20 <-- click and see.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QTEA3I/ref=cm_sw_su_dp?tag=mr060-20

Amazon understands/redirects all four of those links as:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QTEA3I/ref=cm_sw_su_dp?tag=mr060-20

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