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You have downgraded my attack from "rewrite all Amazon links" to "rewrite all Amazon links that were not owned by another affiliate." And I can rewrite all Ama
by btilly 6y ago
You have downgraded my attack from "rewrite all Amazon links" to "rewrite all Amazon links that were not owned by another affiliate."
And I can rewrite all Amazon links that were not owned by another affiliate if I don't mind just sending them to the Amazon home page. Which will probably be the behavior if an affiliate messes up the link (which they will do fairly reliably).
The result is not a significant improvement over the current state, except that it becomes somewhat harder to be an affiliate.
- rhizome 6y agoMy solution eliminates the entire theft problem, and I'm not going to entertain the nirvana fallacy of "oh but unaffiliated urls can still be rewritten!" which is also goalpost-moving. Why would Amazon honor a broken affiliate link? They don't now.