Be warned of transparent affiliate links. Summary: They highjack on_clicks

7 points by achille ↗ HN
In an earlier story on how to "fly for free" a commenter was downvoted for explaining the entry contained affiliate links.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1428051

Most people who checked looked at the hover and the source -- but likely did not click the link.

The blog/whatever has direct links to the product page, but skimlinks.com highjacks the onClick event and redirected to the affiliate site.

Just FYI

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The real story: Wordpress makes its users look dishonest.

The author upgraded to paid WP account, to remove the affiliate code.