VG 24/7 Has 250+ Articles Containing Undisclosed Affiliate Links (Crosspost from /r/KiA Big thanks to Reddit user Wodge who recently did a post about a single affiliate link at VG 24/7 being used in an article without disclosure. It's possible to know this by following the affiliate tag at the end of the link, as given in the example in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3u7bmj/vg247_sticks_an_affiliate_link_in_without/ The tag that Wodge spotted ends with: tag=vg247-m-21 However, this isn't just a single case of undisclosed affiliate linkage. There are more than 250 entries with the tag. Here's a list of articles with the tag: https://archive.is/bD7hp They don't contain disclosures that they are commissioned affiliate links. After the first post made by Wodge I did reach out to VG 24/7's Brenna Hillier and EIC Patrick Garrett about adding the disclosure statements somewhere in the article, as per the legal enforcements by the FTC. Neither responded. The undisclosed affiliate links at VG 24/7 have persisted for more than the past month (presumably to take advantage of the holiday shopping season). If you want to reach out to them you can do so via their contact page: https://archive.is/NTpXd I tried reaching out to them before about some separate issues but they never responded. If you want to wait for them to respond that's fine. If you would prefer to contact the FTC about this, you can use the form here: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/GettingStarted?NextQID=251&Url=%23%26panel1-9#crnt ------End of Original Message----- Some Anons on 8chan already archived all 250+ article, but now we need to catalog them (i.e., by making pastebins containing the archive links and the name of the article they lead to). I've already created two such pastebins for site 13/13 ( http://pastebin.com/uZth6Wt1)  and site 12/13 (http://pastebin.com/n9feCpTW), but there's still eleven other sites that need some love. Archives of the sites leading to the articles with undisclosed affiliate link: https://archive.is/bD7hp https://archive.is/OIhbH https://archive.is/zvyTh https://archive.is/N6O2Z https://archive.is/zD2GU https://archive.is/I1ZM9 https://archive.is/eVigF https://archive.is/IJgIN https://archive.is/2Qy0k https://archive.is/JtcE8 https://archive.is/jw9bq https://archive.is/mE8dv https://archive.is/4kqS0 To check whether an article has been archived, simply right-click it, hit "copy link location", and paste the address into archive.is . If you've finished a site (~10 articles), please post the archives of he articles either here or in a pastebin (remember to not let it expire) as I did Happy hunting!