Originally Posted by signupdamnit

I'm thinking this is it. I'll explain. $35 or $30 PPS has been the standard for over 15 years. If they dropped it on normal customers they might get a lot of affiliates getting upset. Enter the mobile explosion somewhere around 2008. By then affiliates were already in decline and now they don't care as much so they give less and they know they can get away with it. With mobile projected to rise it's a clever way to cut out affiliates even more.

It's the same thing for why affiliates don't get money on ccbill programs under revshare for cross sales or why it's okay to collect email addresses and sell other programs without paying the affiliate anything. Or all the other bullshit. It's because they can. As the affiliate model in adult declined it only got worse as the sponsors increasingly decided they could get away with more.