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Originally Posted by woj
All these ideas require changes on the sponsor end, but like someone said before, sponsors don't really care... and even if you manage to get sponsor to shut down their account, the spyware owner will just create a new account the next day...
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MoreNiche cares Woj. Any program who values their long term existence needs to care. There are a number of tools your sponsor can implement to spot Zango users internally - Im not saying here what we use, but we can spot them straight away.
But yes you are right, i have found these Zango users using our program - froze their account immediatly to find them popping up with a competitors site.
For this kind of situation programs can employ fair play services from peeps like Ben Edleman & co who can monitor the networks sites and keywords. They can even supply your program with video of the ad in action. Once a program is approached with this kind of evidence, they will act and remove the affiliate. Yes they may appear again, but eventually it will become unprofitable for them.
As affiliates what can you do ?
Well talk to your reps, find out what their official stance is.
Check the TOS of the sponsor - do they have adware use as a fundemental breach of the agreement? If they do not, they are not protecting
your income.
Pressurise the sponsor to get educated on the subject and to implement tools for spotting both internal and external adware users.
If your pushing big numbers and can afford it, sign up to a monitoring service such as
www.affiliatefairplay.com to monitor your sites and keywords
Educate your fellow affiliates, do not affiliate yourselves with sponsors who do not police this area.
Im seeing more and more Zango installation prompts - Its big business - and its not going away any time soon
Any sponsor/affiliate