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Originally Posted by rowan
This only solves the issue of replacing an affiliate ID... what happens when Zango pops up a Quickbuck (merchant) join page over the ccbill or epoch form?
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Well, in such a case QuickBuck (assuming they were a clean sponsor, which we all would find an amusing statement) should react to the numbers & referrers (or lack of!) on that specific affiliate account...
So, You're right... it wouldn't work as long as there are such blatantly shady sponsors co-existing alongside our industry.
Guess we would also need a systematic "scam merchant reporting" routine set up as well, and all billing companies should not only listen to us there...
But actually proactively monitor their merchants in pretty much the same way I suggested. And then SHUT THEM OFF due to a "no malware allowed" in their terms.
It would take efforts to get a unified going with this, that's for sure... but it would eliminate the problem.
IF ALL OPERATORS INVOLVED in the industry participated (at least down to the paysite biller level, affiliates can pretty much just inform their surfers)... then this *should* really be the best, most fair, and least complex solution!