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Well as a program especially if you pay per free signups (cpa, per lead) you may wish to see http referer or some info simply as it could be fake signups the guy does himself using vpn and such. As a program 50% or more of the new affiliates who choice the pay per free are actually scammers (esp. from china, phiippines, vietnam, india, pakistan...). Some are so "smart" to even setup a fakesite.com with banners to our site, then put the fakesite.com in the http referers. So they think we're stupid, see traffic come from fakesite.com and believe it. Just to say a program does not want to know where traffic comes just to steal the method, but mainly to ban the scammers.
Said so, a year ago I posted in GFY about an affiliate who made lots signups and sales from youtube videos of clothed cam girls dancing, with links in comments or over video. I got accused as revealing the most secret and new method of own affiliates: youtube videos with links in comments and/or over video. Someone laughed at the fact this was not a new or secret method (and it is black hat since youtube ban videos with adverts as soon as finds out), anyway I learned affiliates think their methods are so secret and programs would spend all the day in copy them.
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