Each article also has the necessary FTC disclosure:
If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.
Every major newspaper does do affiliate marketing, albeit to a lesser degree since they make their revenue via subscriptions/paywalls.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-gifts-sold-out-before-the-... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/technology/personaltech/b...
Future visitors will see the Verge homepage, but not the content on it right now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211127163540/https://www.theve...
That said, HN doesn't accept editorialised headlines. A short blog post, or heck, even a Tweet, would be a more solid basis for a submission, and you'd get to choose your own appropriate and descriptive title. (Keep it under 80 characters to fit HN submissions.)
So if I'm understanding this right: OP actually posted a link to the Verge home page during Black Friday to showcase how "Affiliate marketing has destroyed tech journalism". But there was never an article on this topic?
Shouldn't it be titled "Show HN" or "Tell HN" then? Because the title and link were so confusing and I wouldn't have figured it out without this helpful comment.
