Chimmy

If you haven't heard of Commission Junction, here's a quick overview. Commission Junction is one of the largest, if not THE largest mainstream affiliate program on the net. Their clients include eBay, Geico, Yahoo Personals and so on. So, today when they made the following announcement, I did a little dance of joy.

In order to sustain this open marketplace of information, Commission Junction will no longer allow special programs engaged in the purchase of media from ad services that download and install software on an end-user's computer. For special programs currently engaged in such practices, Commission Junction requests that you immediately discontinue such practices. We will continue to monitor such programs to insure that special descriptions are properly updated.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for scumware programs like casmedia, coolwwwsearch, standard internet, and more. Woo hoo!