Originally Posted by ericdv

your logic makes no sense in the long term.

yes, i know some of the biggest programs are involved in the shadiest shit and have no problems with their affiliates doing shady shit, but if every program placed prechecked, confusing x-sells on every join page on every site, and if every affiliate ran only illegal tubes to promote sponsors, eventually your paychecks would stop coming.

if i were a surfer and hit a join page with prechecked x-sells placed below the submit button with confusing text next to them, i'd probably never notice them until i check my cc statement to see a $120 charge for a membership i thought was free (or a dollar or whatever). i would feel totally fucked and i would never buy a subscription again. period. also, it's pretty fucking easy to avoid buying a subscription due to the massive amount of 30min, 45min, and hour long videos available for free in just about any niche you like on any of the thousands of illegal tube sites up now.

so, shady billing tactics and illegal tube sites work hand and hand to prevent surfers from taking out their credit cards and joining sites in the future. after a while, no one wants to buy memberships anymore and all of your traffic is useless.

in the short term, yes you get those $50PPS payments, but in the long term that money is going to be gone.