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		ikeboy on May 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bit.ly and Viglink Adding Affiliate Cookies on Sho... Stackexchange converts outbound amazon links to affiliate ones. (see https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26964/auto-insertin...) Would that be the same?

eli on May 8, 2015 [–]

Hey I'm just a guy. Maybe Amazon figures it's better to police affiliate links lightly or that a bit of a giveaway to SO isn't such a bad thing. If I ran an affiliate program I probably wouldn't allow that behavior.

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