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Gumroad PSA
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
For those of us living under a rock, what's Gumroad?
An online ecommerce platform.
It's similar to Etsy. Targets smaller creators, values individual-made goods, but focuses on digital content, like soundtracks, 3D assets, etc.
I remember reading about Gumroad it used to be mostly for NSFW art, but they did a Tumblr and banned it. Maybe this is related to the loss of revenue.
Edit: found the article
We need browser extensions to kill those tags automatically.
Firefox I believe does. If you right click on a link, it says something like “copy link without tracking”. It should do away with queries in the URL, but I’m not completely sure.
https://www.trishtech.com/2024/10/how-to-disable-copy-link-without-site-tracking-in-firefox/
uBlock Origin filter or ClearURLs for example.
In the case of uBO, just search for "url" in the filter list and you should find it.
The URL tracking filter list is nice but it doesn't seems to include anything related to gumroad domain or parameters.
https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/ublock/filters/17.txt
You need to add it yourself.
For those of you with Apple devices, I’m pretty sure current versions of Mac OS and iOS remove tracking arguments from URLs when you use cut/copy/paste/share.
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/08/ios-17-link-tracking-protection/
Also this only applies in private browsing mode, which people usually aren’t in
This the most tech illiterate take....
These are called query parameters. The standard part of the HTTP spec.
A huge part of the internet uses these simply as a way to instruct a page to display certain data or to display a particular view or layout of that data.
Calling for an extension to get rid of these it's like calling for an extension to get rid of headers because websites use them to pass metadata in the same manner.
Edit: that was harsh my apologies.
OK, I think the real solution is that I'm never using Gumroad again. Sad, as some really good dnd stuff was there
I’m sorry to disappoint, but this will most likely not work. As soon as you make such a request, a session is created, which is stored in the cookie. And if they are real big asses, they only use the IP address to correlate the user to a session.
I'll just skip the whole place
What a terrible platform, I knew they would get desperate after banning porn.
https://bsky.app/profile/stargazerbird.pmd.social/post/3ld4tz3hllc2u
Based of that, it sounds like it’s affect people who had opted into the boosted discovery since that was already a thing and that was 30%+. The simplified wording doesn’t help but I’m feeling this got way blown out of proportion. Humanity does that nowadays.
A dumb policy with perhaps an even dumber implementation. Basing profit sharing percentages off query parameters 🫨 ?
That’s how basically all affiliate links work.
This time it’s just the merchant getting more or less from the creator. vs doing the split with the linker and the merchant.
Also 10% is pretty low, normally merchants take like 30% cut by default so they have plenty to share.
Never heard of that platform before, is it US only?
I'm only familiar with Gumroad because a lot of artists use it to sell their VRChat avatars and 3D printing files. I wasn't keen on the fact that a few items I went to buy weren't actually still for sale and the only thing telling you this was after you attempted to make the purchase.
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2024
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