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How to deal with links to commerce?

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An answer in the Linux Codidact is using the price of solid state drives and hard disks to clarify its point, and does so by linking to these products in Amazon.

Leaving my personal judgement of Amazon apart, I would nonetheless remove the links as the prices are what is substantial to the answer, not the exact products in sale.

Do we have a policy on linking to commercial services? If not yet, should the links be removed?

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matthewsnyder‭ wrote 6 months ago

FYI, I decided to delete the post linked in this question.