I really would like to see affiliate programs voluntarily submitting to third party independent audits like the casinos do.
It would dispell a lot of these perceptions, at least for those who subject themselves to such audits.
I know I would promote them way above all others, knowing that I will be compensated exactly for my efforts.
Some basically honest programs recoil from this idea because the statistics software is just not reliable. None of it is 100% reliable I understand, and often it is quite shoddy.
Again, I have to point at microgaming – they should hang their head in shame for not providing an accurate, uniform tracking program. They are spending all this money on new games and all kinds of incentives – show me an audited program and it will be all the incentive I will ever need.
APCW and Todd have been conducting some tests, much of the same type as we all conduct periodically. They can, if you are not perchance catching the time a particular program tracked correctly, tell a lot. But it’s not like a real audit – if I make a test of one out of several thousand clicks, it’s not much of an audit, is it.
Again, I think there are good and honest programs out there, but as Maxfalcon says, it’s human nature to stray when there is no regulation at all.
And we have none.