Re: Reinvigoratoring the GNOME Amazon store

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 19:03 +0100, Juanjo Marín wrote:
> Hi !
>
>
> In 2009 we introduced an amazon store in the friend of gnome page [1].
> AFAIR, Jaap Haitsma was, at least, one of the person on charge of this
> and did a very good job. When you make your Amazon purchases at this
> store the GNOME Foundation will receive a referral fee which amounts
> to 4-6% of the total purchase you make. Depending on where you live
> you can use the US, Canada, Germany, France, Japan or UK store.

I have a couple of questions regarding the stores.

- is the "front-end" at http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ the only
way for GNOME to get a referral fee, or would setting a referal "store"
as the Search plugin/Firefox add-on give you the same referral fees?
- Does the Amazon.com smile program also require using a referral code,
or would any purchases automatically get a referral percentage, as long
as you've registered GNOME as your preferred charity?

If the only requirement is to have a referral code in the URL, we can
probably integrate something into Epiphany, with an opt-out. I've
already done something similar to strip out tracking data from URLs :)

Cheers