Amazon link weirdness test

[Rex Sanders]

For the last few days, Amazon links posted in BPL forums create weird results when you click on them. Something confusing about Kindles. I’ve used the TinyURL shortening service to get around that, which is far less than ideal.

I’ll try some Amazon-supported alternative URLs.

Results:

• Above each URL I posted the link without ”https://” to make the following link more visible but not clickable.
  Instead, BPL’s current software turned some of those into clickable Amazon links that start with “http://” (note the missing “s”) but do the right thing!
• amzn dot com slash ASID doesn’t get mangled at all.

The joys of modern Web software continue!

— Rex

Plain Amazon URL (with tracking crap at the end removed):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08LQWMMD1/

Shorter
http://www.amazon.com/gp/B08LQWMMD1/

Still shorter (WINNER)
amzn.com/B08LQWMMD1
https://amzn.com/B08LQWMMD1

Bit.ly to amzn.to
amzn.to/3bM27Da
https://amzn.to/3bM27Da

TinyURL
tinyurl.com/5yfpy9t6
https://tinyurl.com/5yfpy9t6

And here’s a picture of what I posted before clicking Submit:

[Rex Sanders]

Same URLs, but buried under plain text

Results:

All worked fine except “Shorter,” which gets an Amazon not found errror.

— Rex

Plain Amazon URL

Shorter

Still shorter

Bit.ly to amzn.to

TinyURL

[Ryan Jordan]

We are aware of this. We know how to fix but will be delaying that until after launch.

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