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Originally Posted by OzMan
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?.
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Here is the difference and it is a major difference IMO. Whether it is adwards, or exclusive deals with SE's, etc.. The search engine is generating the traffic they sell. People come to search engine because they are looking for something. While I would not personally bid on other people's names on a search engine, it is a lot different they what zango is doing. The person using zango is not looking for an alternative, they are clicking the the "Click here to signup now" link on my site. My ifriends signup page pops up and then a cams.com page goes right over it, same size instantly.
I draw the line when people stop generating their own traffic and they start stealing traffic.
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Originally Posted by OzMan
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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so when do you start to care? You don't care about 1%, what about 5%. Would you care if you lost 5%? What about 10% or 20%? Would you care if you were losing 35%? Where do you draw the line.
SO you want to wait till it starts affecting you enough to care. Don't you think it might be a little late to do something by then? And your solution to switch to another sponsor. What good is that going to do? AFF, SexSearch etc are targeting a lot of sponsors. You might be hardpressed to find a sponsor to advertise that is not being targeted by spyware.