Whenever I link to an Amazon product on this blog, I use an affiliate link through the Amazon Affiliate program. They pay me a nominal amount for the referral and it doesn’t cost my users anything. I don’t always add a disclaimer for these links, but when I do I often mention that “clicking this link helps support the site.” It turns out — as pointed out to me by a reader (thanks Jean) — you’re not supposed to do that. But there is a standard disclosure provided by Amazon that I’ll be including on this site from now on.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://brettterpstra.com/2019/03/05/amazon-affiliates-and-automated-contextual-snippets-in-jekyll