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Originally Posted by EriktheRabbit
Silence and shady modules not a good thing. If a program does not require the module then it should not be delivered to them. This is 2012, not 1997.
if a program has trouble with shady traffic, block the traffic and or do not sign up webmasters/customers from those problematic geo spots. problem solved.
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To be fair to TMM/NATS there are legitimate reasons to have the "Hide Joins", "Hide Rebills", and "retro active payout" options. Also with the theoretical attack (shave method) I described there is a legitimate reason to hide the joins and rebills under those circumstances in that you might not want a bunch of $0 rebills to show up say after a affiliate was switched from PPS to revshare. So even if the method can be used to shave undetected (not proven yet, I merely present it as possibility) it does not necessarily mean that TMM intentionally built in a "shave module". A more accurate description would be that it is an unintended bug. Hopefully one which will be fixed if present.
Now if they knew it was there or learned of it's presence and did nothing then there is a case for saying TMM is helping to support the shaving of affiliates. But we aren't there yet IMHO...