Originally Posted by signupdamnit

I have you on ignore but saw it since I was logged out.

No, that is different. But in the early days there weren't urls on affiliate content or banners. As that changed the deal became worse for the affiliate who saw 1% of impressions leak out for free to the sponsor. I'm not sure I would call it criminal but it is unethical and largely taking advantage of the ignorance of affiliates even though practically everyone does it.

I guess that is part of the reason why most adult paysite affiliates are long gone. I won't put up another piece of content with someone else's url watermark on it from now on. But then again I don't even use sponsor content. It's largely worthless. No one seems to want it. They want the whole thing for free.