Its certainly possible but I think absolutely rediculous if they are zeroing out sites with aff links.
What would happen is it would push over onto the sponsors to track all incoming traffic without the aff code installed.
ie follow the player back to the site he originated.
This would be a disaster imho on many levels.
And its about the stupidest thing I can think of to do; what motivates sites with quality content IS the affiliate!
IDIOTS! don’t they know that nobody in their right mind is going to spend the kind of countless hours needed for researching information if there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
If this was to true and to catch on with other SEs what would inevitably happen is the net as we know it would basically cease to exist in trade a few really large websites which were still getting paid as an affiliate but likely they’d be paid upfront much in the way Gambling.com used to charge casinos to advertise on their site.
and that’s what you’d have for nearly every subject is a few big sites like gambling.com providing all the results.
The rest of us simply would not be able to afford hosting after a while; although some like myself would maybe last a little longer because I don’t rely on SEO traffic; but eventually even those like me would not be able to compete as we continued to lose ground on places we were able to advertise.
there are ways to get around these things but they won’t be easy and many would not make the necessary adjustments to survive.
regardless, it wouldn’t be an easy go of things for the most of us.
I hope that isn’t true cause it is soooo STUPID!!!