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I wish I'd obscured the amazon links behind bitly, or my own server, or anything!


bitly won't work. pinterest follows and "strips" redirects to generate link title and thumbnail. you need to have your own url shortener with pinterest's crawler either blocked or served different content. an interesting idea would be to host the links on a domain/service they can't easily block (i.e. tumblr) and do the redirect to amazon using javascript.




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