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Originally Posted by bigdog
Even if someone gets their account canned. Some other sponsor is gladly going to take the traffic. Instead of hijacking the refferal id's, they will just send the surfer to a similar paysite.
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Good point.
That's why affiliates at least need to know for which sponsors their traffic is being jacked (by reconciling their outbound hits with sponsor's raw counts).
Then if a sponsor gets burned (ie. sponsor links redirected to another sponsor), at least the affiliate can change to another sponsor which is not being redirected.
When enough sponsors get dropped, then I'm sure they will apply more of their resources (technical and/or legal) to address the issue.
I the meantime, at least the affiliates will get full benefit of sales.