[hnha]

Few things disgust me more on sites like reddit or hn than people sneaking in affiliate programs for monetary benefit. Would much appreciate it if mods could clean the url from this.

[rsync]

Even worse is the trend at boingboing, over the last 1.5 to 2 years, of putting in an obvious throwaway article just for the affiliate link.

Here's a recent example:

http://boingboing.net/2013/08/24/flash-gordon-1980.html

Add a little color commentary about how you like the Queen soundtrack, a bit about some related context, and then stick in the affiliate link.