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In the last month there has been a considerable amount written about affiliate links and Pinterest. While Pinterest did use Skimlinks to modify user submitted links to add affiliate codes, they stopped that practice even before my initial blog post on the subject. Today a Groupon Affiliate manager sent an email to affiliates encoraging them [...]
Ben Silbermann, the CEO of Pinterest, called me this morning after reading my story on copyright issues. While he didn’t want to go into detail about how they will continue to address that issue, he did provide me with his take on the affiliate link modification story. Ben told me that it was never Pinterest’s [...]
Additional Update (2/15): Pinterest adds disclosure about how they (might) make money, my error about Skimlinks and a conversation with the Pinterest CEO. Update (2/9): Based on the considerable converge that this blog post received, I have published a new post that shares what I learned. I swore I wasn’t going to write about Pinterest again for a [...]
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