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Lets try an experiment with Amazon referrers. (a) Take a "randomly" sourced blog post for a book review: http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/14/the-unwinding-is-ge

Lets try an experiment with Amazon referrers. (a) Take a "randomly" sourced blog post for a book review: http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/14/the-unwinding-is-george-packer-john-dos http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/14/the-unwinding-is-george-pa... (b) Check links to amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmagazineA/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmaga... (c) Click through and check URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmagazineA/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmaga... Looks OK. Anything I'm missing?

angry-hacker 13y ago
It has something to do with their feature called typo corrections, only available for Firefox right now (I have only ABP for Chrome/FireFox). It has to be enabled, if it is enabled by default for all user or not, I'm not sure. typoRules.js downloads urlfixer.org/download/rules.json?version=2 where the redirect is made if you type for an example: amazon.comm, I get (FireFox only) redirected to their affiliate amazon.com link. For an example, amazon.co.ukk gets redirected to http://www.amazon.co.uk/?tag=uf07d-21 http://www.amazon.co.uk/?tag=uf07d-21 Edit: Some of the lines of that file: "domainReferrals":{"amazon.co.uk":"tag=uf07d-21","amazon.com":"tag=uf024-20","amazon.de":"tag=uf0e6-21","amazon.es":"tag=uf07-21","amazon.fr":"tag=uf02b-21","amazon.it":"tag=uf08d-21","ozon.ru":"partner=urlfixer"},"
- dbcooper 13y ago
  I tried with typo corrections on, but did not see any differences.
  - angry-hacker 13y ago
    I edited my answer a bit, try for an example amazon.co.ukk, still no difference?
- dbcooper 13y ago
  reply to edit: If I change the .com to .comm it changes the URL to: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmagazineA/?tag=uf024-20 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmaga... So this is only for mistyped (edit) manually typed referrer URLs?
  - angry-hacker 13y ago
    I guess so. Here they even admit it's their revenue source and that it won’t be enabled by default.... https://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adblock-plus https://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adbl...

angry-hacker 13y ago

It has something to do with their feature called typo corrections, only available for Firefox right now (I have only ABP for Chrome/FireFox). It has to be enabled, if it is enabled by default for all user or not, I'm not sure. typoRules.js downloads urlfixer.org/download/rules.json?version=2 where the redirect is made if you type for an example: amazon.comm, I get (FireFox only) redirected to their affiliate amazon.com link. For an example, amazon.co.ukk gets redirected to http://www.amazon.co.uk/?tag=uf07d-21 http://www.amazon.co.uk/?tag=uf07d-21 Edit: Some of the lines of that file: "domainReferrals":{"amazon.co.uk":"tag=uf07d-21","amazon.com":"tag=uf024-20","amazon.de":"tag=uf0e6-21","amazon.es":"tag=uf07-21","amazon.fr":"tag=uf02b-21","amazon.it":"tag=uf08d-21","ozon.ru":"partner=urlfixer"},"

dbcooper 13y ago
I tried with typo corrections on, but did not see any differences.
- angry-hacker 13y ago
  I edited my answer a bit, try for an example amazon.co.ukk, still no difference?
dbcooper 13y ago
reply to edit: If I change the .com to .comm it changes the URL to: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmagazineA/?tag=uf024-20 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374102414/reasonmaga... So this is only for mistyped (edit) manually typed referrer URLs?
- angry-hacker 13y ago
  I guess so. Here they even admit it's their revenue source and that it won’t be enabled by default.... https://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adblock-plus https://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adbl...