This is much ado about nothing. Just fodder for bloggers. What Pinterest is doing is legal and isn't unethical at all. They're not promoting their affiliate lin

This is much ado about nothing. Just fodder for bloggers. What Pinterest is doing is legal and isn't unethical at all. They're not promoting their affiliate links over anything else and Skimlinks does not alter user posted links that are affiliate links to start with. Pinterest is providing a service to its users and those users can choose to use Pinterest or not. I would tell anyone upset about this "tough luck, go somewhere else". If this were Google or Facebook there may be some reason to be upset. But unlike Facebook or Google, Pinterest isn't a ubiquitous service that's been adopted and deeply integrated into people's lives and way they work. Right now is the time for Pinterest to do these sorts of things because the more popular they get the harder it becomes.