I think that's using referral links for their intended purpose. It costs the user nothing, and compensates the app author for making Amazon/etc a sale they wouldn't have had otherwise. I don't see how this is a bad thing for anyone. Maybe there is a privacy concern if it is going through a third party site, then I would understand users being bothered.
I don't think this is still the case, but in the past if someone followed your referral link to Amazon you would be rewarded if they ended up buying anything up to a couple days later. So it became common to put misleading ads or embed a hidden frame on your site that would link to an amazon referral page, and then get a commission when the user bought something the next day that they would buy anyway. That was scummy, because it defrauds Amazon and tricks the user into doing something they don't want (visit a page they don't want or load something in their browser)
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I think that's using referral links for their intended purpose. It costs the user nothing, and compensates the app author for making Amazon/etc a sale they wouldn't have had otherwise. I don't see how this is a bad thing for anyone. Maybe there is a privacy concern if it is going through a third party site, then I would understand users being bothered.
I don't think this is still the case, but in the past if someone followed your referral link to Amazon you would be rewarded if they ended up buying anything up to a couple days later. So it became common to put misleading ads or embed a hidden frame on your site that would link to an amazon referral page, and then get a commission when the user bought something the next day that they would buy anyway. That was scummy, because it defrauds Amazon and tricks the user into doing something they don't want (visit a page they don't want or load something in their browser)