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Do you pay for the 'free' hosting?
Yes. You give up screen space. It's in the TOS.
Has anyone asked about skimming before? Yes. When the search thing works you'll be able to read a few posts on it.
You don't like the fact it wasn't mentioned in the TOS?
I'm not over the moon about either.
Foreign traffic redirect services have been mentioned/advertised on this board before and I'd be very surprised if this hasn't been going on for some time.
To answer your question - I don't think that anything free has no (hidden)catches.
And as for exposing dishonesty - i am all for it - i just want it put in perspective, remember I am at the bottom of the chain after the search engine, tgp, freehost have had their skim.
Do I have a right to know how much a % redirect a tgp has written into the script?
Do I have a right to know if the tgp has a foreign surfer filter?
Do I have the right to know if the sponsor i have finally sent that last surfer i have left gets whisked away in a chain of pop-ups to lose my refer id?
Ya - sure i do. Will i ever know? will i fuck. This is commerce and it's all about making money - and those who make the most obviously say the least!
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