I agree with you on Visa 100%. Only time will tell the repercussions.....
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But at the end of the day, there's no real need for resellers. They could all be dropped like a hot potato and there would still be surfers looking for porn and paying for porn.
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Absolutely correct. However, it insinuates that somehow the affiliates would be cut off from the porn surfers at the same time.....my thoughts are that the surfers looking for porn would follow the affiliates, not the sponsors.....unless the sponsors decide to pump out....oh....100k sites....and also get them on the first page of the search engines...
Or there is also TGP traffic....the sponsors have already gotten their hands into this traffic though by offering hosted galleries. But, in the end it's up to the TGP owner, the affiliate, where the traffic goes...
The biggest traffic trades are made between sponsors. Where do they get their big numbers? The affiliates. If any of them cut off their affiliates, they would cut off their traffic, and in turn, their ability to trade big traffic with other sponsors.
Now, if they trimmed down, and focused on their top 10% traffic senders, cutting off the rest of their affiliates might make sense.
But, someone, somewhere, with a little program, would benefit by raking in these affiliates. And there will always be new big senders born everyday who, because they can't get an account with the big ones who've closed their doors, will head to the smaller joes....
Or, start their own paysites....
Affiliates will never run out of places to send their traffic for $$....and ultimately...it IS their traffic....