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Small product site bars Amazon as a data source to separate affiliate links from specs

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A developer running Inch & Drawer, a kitchen organizer fit-checker, built a data pipeline rule that blocks Amazon listings from supplying product dimensions, reserving that role for manufacturer pages and retailer listings that print measurements directly. The decision was driven by a conflict-of-interest concern: Amazon links on the site earn affiliate commissions, so allowing them to also vouch for accuracy would mix two incompatible functions. A generator bug was discovered when a fallback mechanism accidentally assigned an Amazon brand storefront URL as a primary source, which a catalog test caught and prompted a stricter assertion that now fails loudly if any Amazon domain appears as a source. A separate timezone bug caused records checked in Korea to appear future-dated during a UTC midnight-to-9am window, fixed by storing full timestamps with UTC offsets. A third issue saw a measurement note copied verbatim into a value field, resolved by storing only the printed figure and moving the surrounding text to an evidence field.

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