I agree with you that this is very upsetting, and I remember your previous complaints elsewhere well, also.
Re, the scumware: People do not usually click on the little popups that pop on top of your site, that is why gator, now called Claria, was so agreeable about removing those from the top of affiliate sites. But people do click on the full page casino ads that pop on top of the casino your visitor chose from your site, often not even realizing it isn’t what they picked.
So we have the sale of email adresses belonging to our players, scumware, competition with the very casinos we work for in the payperclicks, and players being removed from our “lifetime” pool and being sent mail to to return to the casinos, without our or any affiliate tag, and casinos operating portals.
It’s enough to make me cry and almost enough to make me look for another business. 