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Originally Posted by Desirae
It is really sad. I hear what you are saying. I know of a lot of affiliates that just went back to work and threw in the towel trying to compete with their picture tgps etc. I wonder what would happen if the 2257 regulations were more strictly enforced. I remember when the internet lawyers were requesting all of us to use these age verification index pages...lol...
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I see it as a good and bad thing. Bad because its killing off smaller affiliate, but good because it IS killing off smaller affiliates.
When I really started in the adult industry (2002 ish) it was not easy and a lot of programs gave limited content. I had to spend hours creating galleries and TGP software was hella expensive.
two years ago all you have to do is pay $10 for a domain and the rest is handed to you on a silver platter. Shit, people still bitch because they have to pay $50 for some great piece of software that should probably cost a few hundred.
The bad part is if you dont have a lot of money, you are going to sink, and sink fast. You need a lot of content and traffic to compete with big tubes... which brings this back to being a business and like any other business, you need money and you need to take a risk.
Think back about two years ago to any niche and how much saturation was out there. I can tell you when I used to push tranny sites hard back in the day there was only a select few really good sites to trade traffic with. now there are millions of sites all pushing the same content. Why is a visitor going to join anyway?
But they even worse news is honest affiliates that are now scraping to get by are going to resort to other tactics to earn a living. Cookie stuffing? Malware downloads? or even worse