• renegadesporkA
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    15 hours ago

    I understand that. That approach is just really easy to manipulate.

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      9 hours ago

      Not any more than any other tracking method. They control it all.

      If anything, the fact that they give you a method to alter how your purchase is tracked so you can still give the creator 90% when you get to them through their store is pro-creator.

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        6 hours ago

        The ability to alter the tracking is an exploit, not a feature. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad it’s possible, but it seems more a result of a lazy implementation rather than a generous choice.

        Not any more than any other tracking method.

        This isn’t true. There are more opaque ways to track this like cookies, redirects (triggering an api call), and scripts. These could also be exploited depending on how they’re done, but it would be way less obvious than just changing the URI.

        It just seems like they chose the simplest method, thus hampering the effectiveness of their greed.

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          6 hours ago

          Wait, you’re complaining that end users can change it?

          Yes, there are ways the website could prevent that. I’m not sure why that goal serves any purpose, though. Defaults are going to get them the vast majority of the commissions they earn, and being simple and easy for users who really want to reward the creators more to do so is worth the negligible cost.

          Getting commission on sales you make isn’t greed.