I've never had a problem with affiliate links. I don't think they're dirty. I can recognise a valuable review opposed to a worthless review, so whether there ar

I've never had a problem with affiliate links. I don't think they're dirty. I can recognise a valuable review opposed to a worthless review, so whether there are affiliate links in the review doesn't affect my reception of the review. It doesn't make any difference to me if a review is bad because it's a forced shilling exercise or because it's an uninformed review, it's just bad and easily ignored, usually by the first or second paragraph. I click on so few links that if an occasional shill gets some change from my purchase, I don't care, because I would have bought the item (or not) anyway, and not based on a single review. As for identifying affiliate links, I don't think it's necessary from a moral perspective. I think the FTC is nosing around in the area of late, so it might be a safe thing to do. I can't think of an unwieldy way to do it though. If you want to make it obvious you'd put it in the link text, ">The Bible (sponsored link)<". That kind of looks ugly, although if it became common maybe I could get used to it. A tool tip (title attribute) might be good enough, and less distracting when merely reading the text.