WOW: Pinterest Is Secretly Profiting Off Your Pins
Blogger Josh Davis writes that Pinterest, for at least a month, has been hijacking users links to insert affiliate codes that get Pinterest some revenue if a user clicks and then purchases an item on the source page.
If a pinner has added his or her own affiliate code, Pinterest won’t delete it to insert its own, but otherwise, links to ecommerce sites are fair game.
This isn’t disclosed anywhere on Pinterest’s site.
This is interesting on a number of levels, Josh says.
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