This isn’t necessarily- if you have to think about using that link as charity while shopping, it could decrease your likelihood of doing other charitable things (which is why you should set up a redirect so you don’t have to think about it, and you always use it every time!)
It’s an appealing and easy enough hack that I’ll plug my recent LessWrong discussion post Shop for Charity: how to earn proven charities 5% of your Amazon spending in commission. Especially now that Black Friday week has started on Amazon.
On the same topic, Gunnar_Zarncke recently started a LessWrong Financial Effectiveness Repository
That is a neat hack—who said there’s no such thing as a free lunch?
This isn’t necessarily- if you have to think about using that link as charity while shopping, it could decrease your likelihood of doing other charitable things (which is why you should set up a redirect so you don’t have to think about it, and you always use it every time!)
Amazon already does that for you—if you go to buy something without using that link, it’ll ask you if you want to.