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Old Oct 27, 2009 | 8:52 pm
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Originally Posted by Motors
Considering a lot of FTers use websites for their own gains where they may earn cashback etc. For example I earn a bit of money on Hilton bookings through Quidco. Presumably if I clicked Hilton links the money would have gone to FT had I not noticed the redirecting.at url.
I'm really confused by this skimlinks discussion. Does this mean FT essentially steals any cashback link I click on? Let's say, I have FT open in one tab, and Fatwallet cashback in another, I click to purchase something (from the Fatwallet tab), and FT somehow "skims" the revenue? Or does this only pertain to clicks that originate directly from the FT tab? Thanks for explaining!
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