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by Chaosvex 20 days ago
It's a little amusing that he's seemingly linked to the dangerous fuses using his Amazon affiliate links. Hey, may well make a buck if someone's going to buy them anyway, right?
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I think the affiliate links work such that any product bought when the lead into the site is the affiliate code will generate affiliate rewards. So even if you don't buy the crap that's linked, maybe you'll buy something else and that counts.
That’s how they work, and often affiliate links are programmatically added by plugins.

I’ve seen some reviewers intentionally break links to bad products.