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How does the Amazon thing work?
    #6729740 - 03/30/07 09:41 PM (17 years, 2 days ago)

I noticed in a thread that there was a link to a book on amazon, with the shroomery as the referral link


Is this new? And how does it work?

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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Boom]
    #6729760 - 03/30/07 09:49 PM (17 years, 2 days ago)

It's a new option which Amazon offers their affiliates. I just noticed it and thought I'd give it a try. Basically we include a few lines of Javascript and they handle everything for us. It linkifies up to 20 exact author or title matches per page. Not sure if it'll be permanent, like I said I'm just experimenting right now. Also supporters can disable it with the banner display setting. Here's the official announcement if you're interested.

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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Ythan]
    #6729858 - 03/30/07 10:25 PM (17 years, 2 days ago)

OOOHHHHH! THAT'S what it is. I was really puzzled when one of the words I listed in the spell checker thread linked to Amazon, but the text I entered wasn't a link.

I thought I was in the twilight zone there for a while.


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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Diploid]
    #6732261 - 03/31/07 04:57 PM (17 years, 1 day ago)

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I thought I was in the twilight zone there for a while.




Perhaps you were.  :hypno:


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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Boom]
    #6732406 - 03/31/07 05:56 PM (17 years, 1 day ago)

I'm not a fan of this, I didn't see any at first but now I'm seeing links all over the place.


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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Ythan]
    #6733343 - 03/31/07 10:47 PM (17 years, 1 day ago)

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Also supporters can disable it with the banner display setting. -Y



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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Ythan]
    #6734030 - 04/01/07 05:13 AM (17 years, 1 day ago)

Ummm, something is breaking, because the web server tried to serve me a binary PHP file and I want to point my finger at this amazon thing. It seems to me the forums are slower than necessary, and I would like more technical information on how this Amazon Context Links thing works, please.


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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: delta9]
    #6734085 - 04/01/07 06:09 AM (17 years, 1 day ago)

There is no possible way that's related to the Amazon Javascript. A "binary PHP file"? What do you mean, and what URL?

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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Ythan]
    #6735566 - 04/01/07 05:28 PM (17 years, 22 hours ago)

I've had that happen before as well, but before this was implemented...every once in a while when I go to the forum index I have as a bookmark, it's as if I clicked on a link to download a php script.

A save as box pops up, asking me what I'd like to do with it.


This was in Ubuntu, on FF2. I don't think it's ever happened to me in Windows with FF

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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Boom]
    #6735580 - 04/01/07 05:32 PM (17 years, 22 hours ago)

That'd extremely weird, and it could be a big security problem... the next time it happens, could you please download the file and see if it's an actual PHP script, or just the HTML of a rendered page?

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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Ythan]
    #6735596 - 04/01/07 05:39 PM (17 years, 22 hours ago)

I've had the "download php script" problem a few(5?) times last year or so. I never opened it, will do next time. Didn't happen recently.

WinXP and FF.

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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Ythan]
    #6735602 - 04/01/07 05:40 PM (17 years, 22 hours ago)

Aight.. yeah I think I just clicked cancel and restarted my browser..I remember someone in OTD or the Pub saying that this happens frequently to them...

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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Annom]
    #6737281 - 04/02/07 06:52 AM (17 years, 8 hours ago)

It happened to me a few times with XP and FF, but I can't tell what version since this was a long time ago.

Never happened again with opera, either on XP or linux.


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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: Ythan]
    #6739973 - 04/02/07 08:05 PM (16 years, 11 months ago)

I am pretty sure it's just the outputted text, or I can assure you I would have given another bug report or a private message. I can't remember at this point because it was very late, I was a little high, and the amazon thing was on my mind :P. I'll save it next time it happens and post a new topic with my results (or reply to someone else's).

So, the amazon thing is completely client side?


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Re: How does the Amazon thing work? [Re: delta9]
    #6740003 - 04/02/07 08:10 PM (16 years, 11 months ago)

It's mostly client-side, yeah. There's a little AJAX involved but it's with Amazon's server. But the Javascript only runs once the page is fully loaded though. So if the page is never loading, I'm pretty sure it wasn't caused by Javascript. Anyway it doesn't matter, I disabled the text linking yesterday since people found it annoying and it didn't seem to generate any more sales. You can show your appreciating by using our Amazon banner the next time you plan to buy something off their site. :wink:

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