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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
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... |
If anything I would say Nats did go out of its way to make the software transparent to affiliates and make it very difficult to rip affiliates off, I would say impossible but we all know that where there's a will there's a way.
I would say the software functions as advertised and I have no doubt anyone trying to shave with it would get zero support through official channels.