alt Hacker NewsI use share buttons all the time on social platforms, and apps like Amazon that don't have any other way of deep linking.
Lot's of people use apps that don't expose a link, share buttons are great and even better when they use standards like your OS's share functionality.
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filup • today at 9:19 PM
I have a hunch that amazon links do track somehow based on timing. Does anybody do that?
There are so many products on amazon sharing a link to one specific product and having someone else open it shortly after sounds like a high enough confidence.
Again just a hunch.
catlikesshrimp • today at 8:44 PM
That is one of the reasons any publisher wants you to install yet another app in your phone. Be it fb, ig, goog, tk... Edit: Reddit :/
The article is discussing "share on [Facebook,Twitter,etc...]" type buttons on websites, not share via [OS functionality or other native app] buttons inside native apps.
That said, I'm curious as to why someone with enough technical sophistication to be posting on HN browses Amazon with a native mobile app instead of a web browser.