Personally, I'd be quite happy if they pulled user affiliate codes from links and replaced them with their own. Every sane person knows that a site like reddit

Personally, I'd be quite happy if they pulled user affiliate codes from links and replaced them with their own. Every sane person knows that a site like reddit has to be paid for somehow & this seems like a relatively unintrusive way to do so. Metafilter does this, and their user base has no problem with it.