You may have noticed the Amazon banners we used to have are now missing. Yup, we
were thrown out of their affiliate program again. This time the reason was:
"Purchases resulting from Special Links on your Site have been for personal use,
resale, or commercial use, or have been made by your friends, relatives,
employees, contractors, or business relations." I told them that I am 100%
baffled by how this could be the case, but they were unimpressed, and denied by
appeal without further explanation. This is not the only surprising such penalty
the site has suffered lately, as we also had our YouTube channel deleted by
Google last year. It was explained this was due to a copyright complaint from a
rights holder, I pointed out that 100% of the videos there were submitted by the
publishers or developers of the games they promoted, and did not even receive a
response. As someone who strives to color inside the lines at all times on an
internet rife with sleazebags, scammers, and liars, these are very frustrating
developments. But it does not seem there is anything else I can do about them.
Oh well.