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Comment author: tog 24 November 2014 09:17:17AM 4 points [-]

It's an appealing and easy enough hack that I'll plug my recent LessWrong discussion post Shop for Charity: how to earn proven charities 5% of your Amazon spending in commission. Especially now that Black Friday week has started on Amazon.

Comment author: tog 24 November 2014 09:18:22AM 2 points [-]

On the same topic, Gunnar_Zarncke recently started a LessWrong Financial Effectiveness Repository

Comment author: Drayin 24 November 2014 09:19:25AM 1 point [-]

That is a neat hack - who said there's no such thing as a free lunch?

Comment author: Sysice 24 November 2014 11:13:05AM 2 points [-]

This isn't necessarily- if you have to think about using that link as charity while shopping, it could decrease your likelihood of doing other charitable things (which is why you should set up a redirect so you don't have to think about it, and you always use it every time!)

Comment author: faul_sname 24 November 2014 07:16:15PM 1 point [-]

Amazon already does that for you -- if you go to buy something without using that link, it'll ask you if you want to.