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Originally Posted by Lenny2
Sponsors have to be in a real pickle over this one.
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So if they do nothing they keep the traffic, but their affiliates get fucked.
If they terminate the accounts, they lose the traffic, and the affiliates still get fucked.
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I don't agree. If they do nothing, they will lose traffic because the affiliates that are getting fucked, will drop them (low conversions, fishy stats, etc). Most sponsors won't understand what is going on. For example: An affiliate uses a php script to track his traffic sent to a certain sponsor. Because of spyware installed on a number of surfers computers, only 95% of that traffic will reach the sponsors site using the affiliate's ref code. When the affiliate notices that the sponsors stats are off, he will suspect the sponsors stats aren't working correctly. => The affiliate contacts the sponsor... sponsor has no idea what is going on... sponsor replies "our stats are accurate"... affiliate goes to gfy and starts a thread "sponsor X is shaving (count sonly 95% of the traffic I send them)".
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Originally Posted by Lenny2
TGP and MGP owners need to post links to cleaner programs on their front pages and educate their surfers about this shit. That's the only real way to slow this down IMO.
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About those cleaners programs:
- there are TONS of fake cleaner program out there.
- alot of those cleaner programs also block/erase cookies. So promoting those programs is like shooting yourself in the foot.
- alot of spyware crap already hijacks traffic going to antispyware sites.