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Originally Posted by deltav
This is why I think the "anyone can sign up" standard for affiliate programs the past 10+ years is stupid - your brand gets promoted by idiots with no business or marketing savvy, who then do the throw enough shit at the wall & some will stick approach and spam the world with your content.
It becomes the norm in the industry and then online adult becomes synonymous with crap spam sites
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I was around well before 10 years ago, the adult site guys was not less spammy, but more
I remember "dialers" in late 1990's hijacking analogic modems to disconnect your ISP then call satellite lines costing $10 a minute, some friends of mine banked a fortune with that. I never been into that, and banked less money.
Where the biggest adult program owners comes from? Leo of myfreecams was a famous spammer until 2002 (10+ years ago...), sued by Microsoft+Amazon:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/...onphishpr.aspx
By the way I see now he got a venture fund, he consider to invest up to $1 million per company:
http://www.leo.com/
No need to list other program owners who was into spamming, GFY readers may know nice lists.
The issue of today's people is that they are "too late" to enter the spam business, which is not as easy as once upon a time. Those who could spam 10+ years ago, banked and rebranded or reinvested into something else, leaving spam job to chinese's (is just me, getting all those chinese spam emails?).