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Will,
Sorry but I couldn't resist the sarcasm when I saw your beloved iFriends on that site. Let's see what iFriends says. I guess if they say it is an old campaign with a hidden affiliate code who they have since canned and it just redirects to iFriends we have no way of proving otherwise. I merely sided with an expert in the field who seems to think they are not affiliate links. The only other time I have ever seen an iFriends ad without an affiliate code is on their Nightsurf site. You know, the one where they "steal" everyone's MSN adult search traffic by having a custom deal with MSN for top spot on every adult search result. How do you feel about that practice?
Like most people here I am a Clickcash affiliate, an AFF affiliate along with many other companies. At the moment I personally don't care whether IFRIENDS or whoever uses adware traffic. I will start to care when it can be proven that this significantly affects my earnings if I have alternate sponsors to switch to that convert as well and if those alternate sponsors are not doing other stuff far worse than hijacking 1% of my traffic. If all those "if"s apply then I will of course like anyone else simply send my traffic elsewhere. I won't however lecture a sponsor on how they choose to do business.
I don't have any hidden agenda nor any opinion of you good or bad. I applaud your anti adware efforts but really think going after the companies that use it or even the many adware companies themselves isn't the most efficient way to solve the problem.
I don't know how you have any spare time after looking after your own stuff but if you do I think it would be much better spent on educating surfers on avoiding adware and removing it if they are infected by directing them to one of several pages and tools provided by others recently. That is until the day that laws against the Adware companies are passed and enforced and/or better anti-adware/spyware software is built into every OS to protect people from their own stupidity even when they "agree" to download it.
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