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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
This is nothing new. They openly have talked about this since 2007-2008 at the conferences. Basically in a nutshell, many affiliate programs said they were constantly being held hostage by greedy affiliates always threatening to pull their traffic. Demanding $100 PPS, paid in advance on joins, and alike.
In short, many at that time made a commitment to move traffic in-house and away from some of this slavery where they were overly dependent on the affiliate traffic model. The tubes came along at the right time, and made that even easier centralizing traffic and simply making it a pay to play. Now an affiliate program was no longer held ransom and could afford to stay in business.
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Before that, many were already experimenting with "invite only" just to avoid the 90% of affiliates that send 10% of the joins and somehow account for 99.5% of all support issues with all their self professed genius and know-how and their ceaseless idiotic demands for custom tools, promo content etc etc etc.... only to later accuse the program of ripping off affiliates or shaving because they felt they should have had 3 joins that month instead of 2 or because they felt they should be able to be as shady as they want with their methods and ignore the warnings and TOS.
This thread is literally a guide for "how to waste time and focus on nothing productive as a business person and make sure the return on your time is a minimal as you can make it by bitching about things you can't change, instead of just moving on as any intelligent person should"