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mirceagoia
Pinterest is using them, so...
tpiddy
The argument is that users have little reason to care that sites use Skimlinks/Viglinks, but merchants have no incentive to allow it.
tpiddy
Until sites like Pinterest can actually share affiliate revenue somehow down to their users, these sites will "send exactly as much [traffic] without the modified links."

This leaves no incentive for a merchant to allow pinterest to affiliate their links.