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Why was the Wirecutter's link not submitted instead? http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-ssds/ http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-ssds/

• bryanlarsen 12y ago
  It appears that the actual analysis was done by Anandtech.
• pravda 12y ago
  Why was this submitted at all? There are affiliate links to Amazon, for the "recommended" products.
  • ars 12y ago
    > There are affiliate links to Amazon, for the "recommended" products. And? Is that bad or something?
  • mmanfrin 12y ago
    The Wirecutter as shown (to me, at least) that it can be impartial in its judgement of goods. To retain this impartiality, they don't run ads -- they do however link with affiliate links. The saving grace, however, is that most products among a category are sold at Amazon, so the comparison among them should not be affected at all. I as a reader don't feel their decision on quality is at all influenced by what is on or not on sites with affiliate payouts.
  • Someone1234 12y ago
    Isn't that true with any site showing ads? If someone clicks the ad the site owner gets paid. Same here. I am not commenting either way on this authors partiality, just simply pointing out that the logic is flawed regardless.