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Every consumer site wants user generated content for free but is not willing to share a tiny bit of the revs. I don't think there will be much revenue to share
by downandout 10y ago
Every consumer site wants user generated content for free but is not willing to share a tiny bit of the revs.
I don't think there will be much revenue to share. It's too easy to get around this. Link to your own page, and redirect to your affiliate offer. Anyone that takes affiliate marketing on Reddit seriously will be doing this, so I doubt this will generate much revenue for Reddit.
- dack 10y agoThey aren't editing links that already have an affiliate though, it only adds an affiliate if the link doesn't already have one.
- downandout 10y agoYou're right. I only read the announcement, which implied that they would be rewriting all links. I didn't see until just now that this was addressed in the comments.