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Originally Posted by layinglow
looking at the votes in this poll, it just shows how fucking stupid majority of the people in this industry are. Visa has like a 75% market share. Visa pulls out everyone is fucked.
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True, but I think a lot of people feel confident that they wont do this. Also there is other ways to do transactions, but yes it would suck big time.
Take spyware/ adware on the other hand. If you are an affiliate, ask yourself what your profit margin is. Say you buy all your traffic, adwords, gallery spots, etc.. and you profit 25% after ALL expenses (please this is just an example, i know some of you make 90% profit and I am sure some people make a 2% profit). example, you make 25% profit. As scumware increases more and more of yours sales are being losts. If it gets to the point that it causes you to lose money and eats up all your profit, affiliates will begin to fold. If this happens who does it hurt ? Less ads being bought hurts the link lists, traffic brokers, and tgps (people who sell traffic). As more affiliates die out it will cause hosting companies to lose accounts. As less traffic is being generated by affiliates that is less traffic that spyware can steal so even the affiiliate programs will see a decline. Not too mention as affiliates die out the affiliate programs that rely on affiliates will suffer a lot. Say you make 20 signups a day $1,000 but it cost you $1,200 to make that because you lost 10 sales to spyware, you go under. Now your affiliate company lost the 20 sales you were doing as well. It's a ecosystem, food chain just like anything else in nature, you mess with one part you can throw the whole system out of wack. Spyware could easily be the death of affiliate programs and buying advertising online which would ripple through the whole internet.