I should have made more explicit that it’s my opinion: “a bad thing from my point of view”.
It’s a quirk of mine—I dislike marketing schemes injected into non-marketing contexts, especially if that is not very explicit. It is a mild dislike, not like I’m going to quit a site because of it or even write a rant against Amazon links rewriting.
Yes, I understand that Internet runs on such things. No, it does not make me like it more.
Maybe it might even sense to let the forum automatically format links to Amazon that way.
I believe this is supposed to happen already, but have not tested it.
That would be a bad thing.
Why?
I should have made more explicit that it’s my opinion: “a bad thing from my point of view”.
It’s a quirk of mine—I dislike marketing schemes injected into non-marketing contexts, especially if that is not very explicit. It is a mild dislike, not like I’m going to quit a site because of it or even write a rant against Amazon links rewriting.
Yes, I understand that Internet runs on such things. No, it does not make me like it more.
It isn’t a marketing scheme. It’s a monetization scheme.
(Marketing is presenting products for sale. Monetization is finding ways to extract revenue from previously non-revenue-generating activity.)
(And no, the Internet doesn’t run on marketing or monetization. A few of your favorite Internet services probably do, though; but probably not all.)
I accept the correction.
I have another quirk: I dislike being monetized.