Re: Reinvigoratoring the GNOME Amazon store

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 06/08/2014, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> 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?

One needs to have the referrer in the URL when one navigates to
Amazon, so it is possible to have a search in Epiphany with the
referrer ID without too much difficulty. It would be nice if this was
something that was shipped with Epiphany by default.

> - 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
>
>
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