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DuckDuckGo (the search engine) is doing the same. E.g., search for something that returns Amazon search result, and the link to Amazon will have their affiliate tag included.

A positive point, however, is that they are open about this on their website: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216405-m...




It is not really the same as DDG is providing the links itself while pinterest is modifying user submitted links. However, I have no problem with either of them. It would be nice of they said it in their FAQ (or wherever) as DDG did.


Metafilter also does something similar with any Amazon link and are open about it, which does seem the best way to handle it

http://faq.metafilter.com/#51

This seems




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