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[Closed] Why are links to Amazon products not working?

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Seen this a fair bit over the last couple of days - you see a preview of the product in the forum, then you click on the link and get this error message...

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Posted : 17/09/2020 11:56 am
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I saw it too not sure why, but it's a bit annoying.

 
Posted : 17/09/2020 12:27 pm
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They went bust.

 
Posted : 17/09/2020 12:29 pm
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Hmmm.. worked for me earlier.. maybe the trick is to only post the part of the address before the '?'

So if I post " www.amazon.co.uk / dp / 1905102941 /" without spaces I get...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1905102941/

That work?

 
Posted : 17/09/2020 12:51 pm
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Posted : 17/09/2020 1:21 pm
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It's broken, it has been for ages, and it's already in the bug tracker. It looks like it's going to be a little while before it gets looked at though, it's pretty low down on the to-do list.

As a workaround, if you post using the LINK button in the editor rather than just pasting raw text it works.

As a rule of thumb, when posting links 99% of the time the information after the ? is irrelevant bobbins and can be removed.

The reason you've probably not noticed either of these things till now is because I often clean then up manually when I see them.

 
Posted : 17/09/2020 2:45 pm