Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Of course they are worse for honest affiliates overall. As usual the changes primarily hit people doing things the legal way. It's rare that you see an illegal tube hurt by Panda, Penguin, or the EMD update. To Google they are "high quality" and your affiliate site is probably "low quality". Give it time and it will have a ripple effect on pay sites as well. Even more surfers are being trained that they don't have to pay and they can get everything for free. This is the natural result as legal affiliate sites are pushed from the results in favor of tubes, file lockers and forums.And this happens with each major update. You don't see any illegal tubes or filelockers getting hit with this.