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It raises (founded or unfounded) suspicion that the recommendation is not genuine, but was only offered to collect the affiliate fee.
by bemmu 18y ago
It raises (founded or unfounded) suspicion that the recommendation is not genuine, but was only offered to collect the affiliate fee.
- fauigerzigerk 18y agoTrue, but I'm more interested in a link being genuinely useful than in knowing whether the motivation for providing it is genuinely altruistic.
- andreyf 18y agoIf you consider all of the non-affiliate links to Amazon and all of the affiliate links to Amazon, I would hypothesize that more of the former are "genuinely useful" for their audience than the latter.
- fauigerzigerk 18y agoI agree with that. But the real question is if there were no affiliate links, would there be more or fewer useful links overall? It may be that money is an incentive to dig up useful links that nobody would provide otherwise.