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Originally Posted by jimmycooper
It would be better to call out every single sponsor who either buys or sells pre-checked cross sells b/c they drive away paying customers. Eliminating file lockers just makes things more difficult for those who likely would have never purchased anything.
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I highly doubt that any person who normally pays for porn suddenly stops doing that (at the original site) and spends his time searching the forums for download links for content for that site and then eventually pays for that through Paypal.
The stop filelocker thread is so popular because it's full of people who think they will get sales like it's 1999 if the filelockers stop working. Once again, they won't.
Targetting shady/hidden xsells would for sure have a way bigger impact. The amount of paying customers who got screwed over by programs most of people on gfy are pushing has to be gigantic. We're talking about people who before didn't have a problem pulling their card but after being hit by 150 dollars in charges for a $2.95 signup they will now never pay for porn again. But that seems to be no problem whatsoever for all the idiots in the filelocker thread. They keep pushing sites like that while hoping that killing filelockers will result in getting better sales again. I'm pretty fucking sure that people who download porn from filelockers wouldn't sign up for a porn site in the first place and have never done so. It was never your potential customer or lost customer.
The existing customers however are screwed over like crazy because you idiots want 50 dollar payouts for every sale. And will never return again.
This industry is full of idiots. It's scary.