[twistedsymphony]

I just got this installed and running on 3.8.x and it seems to work great

one concern though... I'm new to the whole affiliate linking thing and I noticed it's adding "ref=nosim" to some of the links.

I didn't know what this was so I looked it up, people used to add it because it would take users directly to the desired products as opposed to a similar product's page.

Amazon has depreciated this tag a few years ago (hence why I'd never seen it) and they state that link that include it should still work but they don't recommend anyone use it anymore.

there is concern among some that the "ref=nosim" tag will at some point stop working and invalidate existing links.

it'd be nice if there were an updated version of this plugin that takes newer link protocol into account... or if someone with a good knowledge of amazon affiliate links could point out what needs to be changed in the code to get rid of that tag.

it looks like it's used in 2 places with the following line:

$out[1][$i] = 'http://www.amazon.'.$out[2][$i].'/exec/obidos/ASIN'.$asin[0].'ref=nosim/'.$associate_id;

I'm curious if it should be modified to this:

$out[1][$i] = 'http://www.amazon.'.$out[2][$i].'/exec/obidos/ASIN'.$asin[0].'ref='.$associate_id;

or to this:

$out[1][$i] = 'http://www.amazon.'.$out[2][$i].'/exec/obidos/ASIN'.$asin[0].'/'.$associate_id;