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Originally Posted by OzMan
Never mind the future, my point basically is that I would be hard pressed right now to find a sponsor, Adult or not who is not directly or indirectly involved in adware traffic, P2P traffic or numerous other traffic sources that are not generally accepted as being 100% ethical.
They either buy the traffic themselves, accept it from affiliates or are involved more covertly once or twice removed by laundering the traffic thru' third party "search engines" etc.
Adware companies sell their traffic (however it was acquired) to the highest bidder. As does MSN with their SE traffic, Google etc.
Apparently this makes good business sense as there are companies far bigger than any in Adult doing this as was mentioned above.
You won't make a dent in the problem by continuing to point out a couple companies and a couple adware sites. Dig a little deeper and you will find pretty much everyone is involved at some level. You don't have the time or resources to target every company who advertises on the Net as well as every adware company.
Therefore like I said before, all we can do for now is to educate the surfer and petition your congressman or Microsoft to make effective changes at that level.
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I am not on an "ethical" kick here. Like i mentioned to DH a month ago, i would rather someone email spam me then steal my traffic. At least the spammer is generating his own traffic. This isn't a try to protect the surfer campaign or your sponsor accepts questionable traffic don't use them crusade.
This is about stealing money out of my pocket and stealing my traffic. This is IMO no different then hacking my server and taking every 10th hit that comes in and directing it to your site. I am not talking about p2p traffic. I never brought up the "too much free content on the net, don't promote them" or password sites, or anything else. There is a huge difference between adware (aka Spyware) and everything else.
Bottem line. Generate your own traffic, don't steal mine. Out bid me, fine. Develop a more effective promo fine. Just earn it, don't steal it. This should be illegal and i hope the laws catch up.
Just because mainstream is doing it doesn't make it ok. I don't think it would be so hard as you think to find some good sponsors here who do not accept stolen/hijacked traffic. AFF is the one stealing it themselves, it isn't even like they are accepting stolen traffic from bad affiliates, they are going out and stealing it themselves.
So you never answered my question. You don't care about it right now because it may affect only 1% of your sales. At what point (%) is it UNacceptable for you to have money stolen from you ?