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Originally Posted by Bama
Step back for a moment and ponder these 2 questions separately:
[*]If I owned a webmaster program and I had an affiliate sending me a LOT of joins that I believe were generated from the use of distributed spyware and to date no one knew about this so I wasn't suffering negative press would I cancel their account?
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Most affiliate companies probably would not cancel the affiliate until it was made public then they would say " wow we didnt know, thanks for pointing it out". This is one of the main reasons behind the group I think that needs to be formed. Spyware companies, trojans, even the little pricks in mama's basement need to be identified and the programs they are pushing needs to also be identified and all of that information needs to be made public.
I would take great pleasure in costing the spyware installing fuckers money and causing them trouble. If they move from company to company and keep getting their accounts closed down and they don't get paid, I am costing them money too. HAHAHA fuckers now you know how it feels. You cost me money, I cost you money. Even if it just cost them a couple thousand here or there I know it has to burn their ass, even just a little to know that some prick (me) complained about them and got their affiliate account shut down and they lost that money. Then they have to signup to another program and change links, etc..
Did you hear about that little bilket asshole who created a virus for yahoo chat, it infected other users and before you know it thousands of accounts were infecting other accounts posting his links. People out'ed him here and sponsor after sponsor shut him down. He most have switched through 20 of them. It was funny watching him make post bitching that sponsor " abc " shut him down and wouldn't pay. Then the info on what he was doing was public so it was obvious why his accounts were closed.
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Originally Posted by Bama
[*]All of the other webmasters want to boycot Sponsor A until they spyware proof their webmaster program but they're my highest earning sponsor. I feed my family and buy my toys from the money earned from this sponsor and changing over to Sponsor B would be a pain in the ass and probably not earn me as much - would you pull your links?[/LIST]
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I don't know about boycotting a sponsor because they don't spy proof their program. How do we really know if they do that or not anyway. From OUR standpoint, we expect them to close down accounts when they are reported. If they did more or less it most likely wouldn't be transparent to us anyway.
I will boycott a sponsor for using spyware. I think everyone knows my stance on that. Most people spread their joins out so much it wouldn't be a big deal to drop a company or two and replace them with someone else. I also don't think the drop off in income from 1 company to the next is that much. There really is no guarantee you would lose money, the new sponsor might make you more. How many people have tried them all, i doubt anyone has. So you really don't know if your "best one" really is the best one out there. I also hear a lot of people crying about how bad their sales are lately from these big companies (that accept spyware).