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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Linkster, the problem is that is very hard to say if it is the program or an affiliate doing the nasty deed. A company like AFF could stop buying from toolbars, but one of their affiliates could keep it up. Who do you blame?
Worse, companies can just create phantom accounts and buy traffic themselves, and when you "catch" them, they blame an affiliate in Trashcanistan or where ever and there is no real easy way to prove otherwise.
You cannot police program owner morals, and this is one of those issues that Nick@Ilynx would love... how much morals can you afford?
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This has nothing to do with where the traffic comes from or how it gets there. The sites choose themselves whether they are pro or anti telling the surfer about these programs. We teach the surfer why he should avoid it, how to get rid of it and what programs will protect his computer. The surfer makes his own decision.
The sponsors, message boards, tgp sites, gallery submitters decide whether they want to tell the surfer, with a link to all the information, or ignore it. Affiliates will see the link or it will not be there and it will be their decision if they want to work with the site.
So an affiliate can send adware/scumware traffic to a site with or without the link. Might not be to clever to send traffic to a site that will undo the the program that sent them there. Affiliates not using this method can decide for themselves if they want to send traffic to a site that supports the campaign to educate the surfer or not.
Short term it might cost a few some money, long term it might keep their job.
But this business is not famed for thinking long term.
For instance if GFY does not have the banner those against the method stop, reading, posting and advertising, if AFF do not have the banner affiliates can choose if they want to deal with AFF or not.
Just using the above as examples and I'm sure that would both support a campaign like this.
To date I see nothing from the "Anti" adware side to reduce the effect of adware and it's a case of organise or buy some traffic and let the chattering continue to go no where.