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Barring Amazon referral links
Dustangle
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Right now, on the Grabbit forum, some !!!! !!!! has posted a !!!! referral link within a perfectly good tip.
Presumably she or he has done so to make money out of us. We want to keep the tip but we want them not to make a profit out of us.
Why can't this site automatically stop such links? See if you put up a post with sweariewords, like !!!! and !!!! and !!!!, the system stops the word from getting posted, so why can't they put a similar stop on such codes?
Presumably she or he has done so to make money out of us. We want to keep the tip but we want them not to make a profit out of us.
Why can't this site automatically stop such links? See if you put up a post with sweariewords, like !!!! and !!!! and !!!!, the system stops the word from getting posted, so why can't they put a similar stop on such codes?
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Why can't this site automatically stop such links? See if you put up a post with sweariewords, like !!!! and !!!! and !!!!, the system stops the word from getting posted, so why can't they put a similar stop on such codes?
It shouldn't be beyond the wit of the web techies to ban any url that has
a -21 in it, as that is the dead giveaway that an Amazon link contains a referral.0 -
It shouldn't be beyond the wit of the web techies to ban any url that has
a -21 in it, as that is the dead giveaway that an Amazon link contains a referral.
I've just seem how much money this person tried to make out of us. If Amazon sold 200 pairs of shoes on the basis of that link, her or she willl have made 9.25 per cent - that's £46.0 -
If you spot them report them to the abuse team for removal... :beer:
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Just to let you and others know we've taken action on this so hopefully you'll either have seen this happen less in the last few days or, where someone's tried to do it, the link won't work.
For the moment what we've done is a trial to see if it works so we may need to reverse it but hopefully it'll be permanent.
Andrea
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the Amazon referral links are still managing to get through though http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1408643
I've reported it.0 -
Yes that's a referral. Most of the time I suspect the link has been lifted from another web site contain the Amazon link rather than a spammer0
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the Amazon referral links are still managing to get through though http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1408643
I've reported it.
amazingly the post is still there even though reported directly to abuse at 1.30 :eek:0
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