It is the very worst from of rakeback.
Absolute was doing this for a while and has stopped months ago because of the continuous requests by players to be removed from the account of the affiliate who brought them and under rake back affiliates.
They also were flooded by player complaints. They finally removed the automated feed, thank god.
There are two others offering this now, on is intransigent as the poker software has it as integral part and all rooms on it are forced to do this. The other one will announce shortly that they are removing the feed.
This is a huge step backweard just as I was seeing a lot of movement in the right direction.
Rakeback affiliates will be happy with this model – be very very careful not to lose your players to it if you are not using rake back as incentivisation.
There is an increasing number of rooms offering rewards of equal value to their players directly. Superior Poker, which is handled by Jeff from Wager Profits, is one that performs very well. Talk about trouble free – the room incentivises your players, keeps them safe, and you don’t have to overbid or underbid your peers in order to stay in business.