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I have been promoting affiliate programs for 16 years, and earned millions doing it. I have never seen this idea of announcing affiliate links until I saw it on reddit in the cryptocurrency subreddits. To me its like pretending to be on some high moral ground.. mortality on the internet.. c'mon that's crazy.. it's crazier for me to even respond to someone who thinks there are rules to earning money online, there are no rules, just earn money, that's it, if the internet was not paying me to be on it, then there would be no internet

I don't see anything wrong with it.
If the product or service is good and the referral gets someone to order, why shouldn't they get a cut? I have never done this on Steemit, but we know that most people here are hoping to earn money from their blogs, so it's no different.