Linux Mint switches Banshee's Amazon MP3 store referral code [LWN.net]

Linux Mint switches Banshee's Amazon MP3 store referral code

Posted Dec 10, 2011 13:12 UTC (Sat) by andreasb (subscriber, #80258)
In reply to: Linux Mint switches Banshee's Amazon MP3 store referral code by theophrastus
Parent article: Linux Mint switches Banshee's Amazon MP3 store referral code

What exactly would be the point of changing the referral for yourself? So you get a tiny sum of money once for referring one person (yourself) to Amazon?

Unless you can get lots of people to use the Banshee with your referral account, a single referral of yourself to Amazon (if referring yourself is even allowed) won't exactly be a fountain of riches.

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Linux Mint switches Banshee's Amazon MP3 store referral code

Posted Dec 10, 2011 19:12 UTC (Sat) by theophrastus (guest, #80847) [Link]

yes i knew that. it was a hypothetical to clarify my understanding of the underlying mechanism. for instance, i wanted to be clear that there wasn't a "tee" in this process that sent any of my (financial) information directly to Ubuntu or Linux_Mint or whom-ever (the experts here have obviously checked that that isn't the case and have thereby allayed my fears [wink])