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Originally posted by Bill
Thanks for the heads up about that sponsor.
There are a few other sponsors who have taken to doing autoinstalls, more often on foreign traffic than domestic.
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For anyone who may not be aware why so many sites are doing this suddenly.
Webmasters are being offered around 5 cents per toolbar install, which they say works out to around 10 bucks pay per thousand visitors that hit your site on average... virtually guaranteed.
If you own a small linksite or TGP with 5000 daily unqiues.. would an instant extra $1500 per month attract you? maybe, maybe not... But if you are a 21 year old that has an mp3 site or gaming forum that has made fuck all for years... and this guy comes along talking 10s of thousands of dollars per month potential.. not many would say "no thanks" imho
Add to that incentive that the rep will probably say its legal, and show you how Disney, IBM, or similar are buying the advertising and try and make you feel silly for not joining the goldrush...
Anyhoo... maybe this was common knowledge but it's something I only learned recently and thought was valuable to know.
Bill.. you have an E ;-)
*edit: btw, if you are thinking of joining the goldrush.. I dont expect it will last long.. Once the bulk of potential victims for forced downloads are exhausted (about 15-20% of surfers apparently) I doubt they will continue the brokered deals ongoing. So calculate the profit of prostituting yourself based on a few months income only is my suggestion. (and please dont contact me privately asking where to sign-up.)
And one larger banner ad network is accused of auto-installing shit on surfers via their banners ... and blaming "rouge advertisers" .. not sure of name but apparently they serve many of the mainstream cinema movie banners you see about.. if you use one of those ones.