On 06/08/2014, Bastien Nocera <had...@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 > > > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > engagement-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list > _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
