Okay so with all the hoopala going on around here about Zango and AFF I thought I'd take a look and see for myself what the deal really is. So I installed Zango to see what is really going on and here is what I found.
I'm not really on either side of the issue, but I can appreciate will76's arguement and position.
First I went to jays-xxx-links.com and found this to greet me :
then I went to the hun
followed by al4a
can anybody guess what site this is? I moved the popup over to the right to make it a little easier!
world sex
persian kitty
Then I closed my IE and came back to opera and started posting this. I though to myself maybe I'm wrong about sleazy's site, there is no way he's hijacking that site, I mean sleazy posted saying that he sees nothing wrong with what Lars is doing. I have to be sure before I submit this post, so I reopened IE and checked again
Furthermore, I checked a few galleries promoting AFF but couldn't see any affiliate id hijacking, maybe its just the galleries I checked I don't know.
I don't see much wrong with the ads on the toolbar, it is lowballing no-doubt but okay somebody installed spyware and thats what spyware is. Thing is lars did say a small percent of their budget is used for this sort of advertising but they are pretty much everywhere both AFF and CAMS ads are on the tool bar for all sites above. If thats a small percent of his budget I'd like to know where the big percent goes because I haven't seen any billboards or tv ads.
The hijacking is just plain wrong. The arguement we have to do it so other people cant is just wrong. Nobody should do it and AFF is in a position to be a champion of the fight against crap like this rather than an antagonist.
Last point there is no longer an AFF ad on jays-xxx-links probably in response to a thread started by jay.