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I seem to remember that Posterous tested changing outgoing links to go through a affiliate program proxy. Not sure if they kept it up.
by Tichy 16y ago
I seem to remember that Posterous tested changing outgoing links to go through a affiliate program proxy. Not sure if they kept it up.
- staunch 16y agoI just checked. They do appear to still be doing that. a4agarwal's response at the time http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309849 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309849
- Tichy 16y agoOpinions obviously differ widely on that one. To me it is unacceptable, especially if done in such a sneaky way. Other people seem to be fine with it. If enough people who are fine with it become their customers, why not. I don't think they announced this big when they rolled out their massive "all other blogs are stupid" campaign...