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Theres an ebook teaching affiliates how to literally STEAL other affiliates commission using Z the most notorious adware out there. See screenshot. 1500 affiliates are out there selling it. Makes my blood BOIL!!!

2 DoubleClick stories today: The Google/DoubleClick deal and DoubleClick being accused of allowing trojans and malware to propagate through their ad serving system.

If consumers use the immunize feature it’s killing CJ links. Here is part of the email David got back from CJ when he discovered his CJ links were not working after he had used the Spybot Search & Destroy Immunize feature.

The figh against ad blockers heats up - some legal experts say blocking ads could end up in lawsuits. In today’s CNET article… I say we have no one to blame but ourselves.

This story is causing a big stir everywhere in the online marketing world, but I haven’t seen anyone in the affiliate space talking about all the press. Wait, before I say anything else, let me be clear. I am NOT saying the affiliate marketing is dying! Far from it, just alerting you to the situation.

Have not posted anything recently about the ever-evolving online landscape as it pertains to consumer’s views about cookies and their deletion patterns. There have been a couple recent studies and white papers on the issue.

Just found out about 2 class action lawsuits one by affiliates and one by merchants - both against CJ/BeFree/ValueClick. So if you believe you have been affected adversely by adware affiliates that have been allowed on those networks read up.

Kellie has an eye for these things and a knack for telling it like it is. Both merchants and affiliates need to read as Kellie explains the ramifications of the subtle, yet important changes to the COC.

How do you pre-sell the value of this product over another brand with mere words? You can’t! This hilarious viral video included your aff link. After it SELLS the customer it delivers them to the site to buy. How cool is that???

Listen as Angel, affiliate manager for Onlineshoes (Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award finalist) shares his insights about cleaning up your program and the positive affect it can have on ROAS and revenues.

Attention shady affiliates that think you can use deceptive advertising and just fly under the radar. Sometimes it seems that the only time affiliate marketing makes the news is when something like this happens. And we wonder why AM has a bad rep!

The New York Attorney General is holding companies accountable for their adware advertising in a groundbraking new case. This is the 1st time that legal action was taken against the actual advertisers. Three major brands including…

Maybe if more and more affiliates get busted and are held accountable it will curb the scourge of spyware affiliates that plague our industry. 2 recent news stories I hope will give download affiliates a reason to drop those programs.

Here is a picture of one of Rosalind Gardner’s main affiliate sites, with a big Zang0 ad for Adult FriendFinder popping over her site. She now realizes thats why she has lost revenue on this site.

Brandon blogged about cookie stuffing and said “many of the worlds best affiliate marketers know this dirty little secret.” Rob does a great job of explaining why it’s wrong.

Merchants and affiliate managers that don’t have time or know how to police their programs for bad actors and bad practices should look into this service. The service offers subscription based access to AFP’s Quality Assurance (compliance) testing results of specific traffic generating behaviors of affiliates.

I’ve been yukkin it up over at the MAD Magazine for the Blogosphere. I thought I’d show you this Protection Paranoia cartoon since I have not done a Friday Funny for awhile

McAfee reports that adware and spyware distributors are abusing the affiliate marketing programs of legitimate companies. Adware and spyware growth is increasing at an exponential rate

Vinny Lingham has asked Ben Edelman to conduct a new study about the impact of anti-spyware software on affiliate cookies.

Its a continuing challenge to educate consumers that cookies are OK and are not spyware. Through the education we will separate fact from hype.

In an effort designed largely to reign in Adware advertising, the DMA has just released a new “best practices” document after a formal request by the Federal Trade Commission was made.

180solutions the company affiliate marketers love to hate, just pulled a ‘Gator’ and will soon change it’s name. They are merging with Hotbar another company that has a bad reputation and will be changing the name of the company to Zango.

Advertiser warning. The baddies have a new game.

Hey all you Parasite and Spyware Warriors. Founders of a well known spyware - adware - parasite distributor are finalists for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Ernst & Young.

This is NOT a link baiting blog - this story is 100% true! Shawn Collins did just file a law suit against Ebates for it’s spyware tactics…

There were reports long ago that Overture was playing in the sandbox with Gator and this lawsuit alleges Yahoo is still in bed with the wrong people and uses PPC click fraud to bump up their revenue around earnings times. Our friend Ben Edelman…

The group’s goal is to discuss all issues of importance to the affiliate marketing industry and of course, one of the most pressing issues is parasites and Adware. Adware hurts our ENTIRE industry and EVERYONE’S income! Not just affiliates - but also the networks that allow the adware are suffering from lower revenues due to their own actions.

I assume these guys were affiliates since they were paid a commission for selling this bogus anti-spyware software.

Incentive programs are the often the target of criticism for robbing honest affiliates… 50 people laid off

I’m proud to announce that AzoogleAds, a new 5 Star client, has raised the bar again in the fight against adware… recently parted ways with 180 Solutions, eXact advertising and Direct Revenue now more…

1st the bad news - The most recent version of SpyBot Search and Destroy (a very popular anti-spyware program) is reported to be blocking cookies for all the major networks: Commission Junction, LinkShare and Performics.

Weekend news about 180 Solutions, my favorite Adware company to talk about. Ben Edelman feud - AzoogleAds drops 180

The dissemination of harmful, unremovable programs that frustrate consumers’ ability to control their own computers is digital carjacking, and we intend to vigorously prosecute it

Is it OK to serve full page pop unders of CJ links? NO. It’s considered cookie-stuffing or setting forced clicks - besides that it’s bad for our industry - Why???

Warning :Norton just caught the W32.Mytob.V@mm worm which is rated HIGH risk in an email that came from newsletter@linkshare.com