Amazon is screwing you for not making them more money

  • The plugin will fail to work if too few of your visitors click through to Amazon and make a purchase.

    From the AWS docs (emphasis mine):

    Effective 23-Jan-2019, the request limit for each account is calculated based on revenue performance attributed to calls to the Product Advertising API (PA API) during the last 30 days. …

    Note that your account will lose access to Product Advertising API if it has not generated referring sales using PA API in the last 30 days.

    Worse yet, the plugin stores the code for API calls in the wp_options table. This leads to database bloat and can eventually crash your WordPress site. (check how bad it is on your site by going to: /wp-admin/options.php ).

    Fortunately, if you delete the plugin (not just deactivate) it will clean the crap out of your database. (Be sure to take a backup first.)

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