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Some samples from the last ~year: - "expected $800/mo" for an affiliate ID injector - "up to $50 per 1000 daily actives" for search engine override The purch
by 1986 5y ago
Some samples from the last ~year:
- "expected $800/mo" for an affiliate ID injector
- "up to $50 per 1000 daily actives" for search engine override
The purchase requests largely take the form of "if you're interested in selling, please respond" and I don't really feel like opening that dialogue, so can't answer that part.
- uh_uh 5y agoInteresting, thanks! What is an "affiliate ID injector" in this context?
- danielheath 5y agoAmazon pays affiliates money each time they refer you to purchase something on Amazon. They check the referral by giving you an affiliate id, which you can add as a query param to urls on your pages. Injecting your id into unrelated pages gets you affiliate rewards sooner.
- pjc50 5y agoI imagine it injects affiliate links - ie if you search for something on Amazon, the affiliate payment would be attributed to the extension's owner. This would include overwriting existing affiliate links too.
- 1986 5y agoAffiliate marketing pays out a fee to an affiliate (i.e. referral source) when a user makes a purchase, normally to the last-touch source using a unique affiliate id (e.g. Wirecutter constructs an Amazon link that contains their ID, so they get some money back when you buy one of their recommended products). With certain extension permissions, malicious actors can replace these instances of IDs with their own, or cause all Amazon links to contain their affiliate ID, etc, thus falsely claiming that payout for themselves.
- michaelbuckbee 5y agoSome blog has a link to Amazon (or wherever) and the extension modifies it to include the referral code of the affiliate.