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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
Spyware/Adware - I think this is bad, but I also think we are closing in on a breaking point with this stuff. I think we'll see tougher legislation on this (much like we saw with spam) and more accountability from sponsors. Spyware hurts conversion rates, and affiliates who have bad conversion rates will move to companies that don't support spyware and have higher conversion rates. While it's bad and fucks over a lot of people, I think it will even itself out eventually. However, it could get much worse before it does.
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The issue here is that legislation will only come about because people's pcs are crashing, worried about privacy laws, etc...
That is because these spyware " adware " companies sell traffic, so they need to pop up 5 zillion windows so they can make money and this kills the person pc.
The ones I am worried about are the ones that are created just to steal affiliate signups, not to sell traffic. If this is there intention they can basically run stealth and the user would never know it is on their pc. Likely it wont be added to anti virus software since no one is complaining about it, and if it only affects us than the govt wont care. The other problem is what recourse do we have the people doing this out of Ukrain or China ? How would our legislation protect us and get those people to stop.