Hi, On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 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. > I vaguely remember this was discussed in the past and we couldn't do it because it was against their terms of service. Does anyone have time to look them over to make sure that that isn't the case? Thanks, Rosanna > > > - 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 >
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