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That may be true, but you aren't really answering the question. What makes your traffic worth more than the revenue they make from those "leaks"?
Again, not slamming you. I am just trying to understand the business case for a website to drop the revenue it makes from providing ad space (which if sold by cpm, is known and quantifiable) vs an affiliate such as yourself who's potential revenue can only be described as "good" and of "certain value" without any solid numbers.
And don't forget, your traffic costs them money too by way of affiliate commissions, and perhaps even more important, the income they may be making from ads on their site is a fixed amount, and they have an agreement in place, and may even be pre paid, vs an affiliate who could choose at any time to stop sending them traffic and thus affecting their income.
It really seems to me that some affiliates can demand too much sometimes without considering other factors.
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It's trivial to add in a few variables to disable the showing of the third party ads when the visitor is sent from an affiliate link. They don't have to remove all the ads on their site as you are assuming. However they may not want to because getting affiliates to send you traffic for free and then monetizing it is one of the modern scams used by some affiliate programs. But for what it's worth $300 to some coder from Russia or the Philippines would be all it would take to fix this.
When I send traffic somewhere I expect the sponsor to try to convert the traffic to a product which gives me my cut. To begin to allow otherwise opens the door for a clever sponsor to take advantage of the loopholes in order to collect my traffic for free and to then sell other products which I get nothing for. It soon becomes a bad deal for me. Chaturbate has already shown they have no problem changing the terms of their program so who is to say that one popunder now may not become three next month? On revshare the long term relationship with the sponsor is a big deal. On PPS or PPF it is not so much so.
Bottom line is that they are free to do as they like and I am free to do as I like. But in my opinion revshare with a bunch of uncredited ads is not "revshare" at all rather a borderline "scam" on affiliates. I don't sweat the little stuff but when we're talking about popunder and huge prominent ads all over the place then it becomes an issue.
This is all for nothing now because I have decided to pull everything for them anyway. I did some reading on WEGcash and combined with the way this was handled I am seeking out more reliable partners.