Not sure if you are addressing me or not, but I won't use a sponsor that I feel is being deceitful. It should have been made very clear on their site that they...
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If it was truly for the webmasters benefit, then it would not have been such a big shock to so many people. There's a lot of people upset about this on several different boards. I don't have any experience with them but when there's that much smoke there's usually fire.
I don't know them, they could be the best sponsor in the world, but there is not sponsor shortage out there, I don't think I could trust them now and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
RD