Greek most everyone uses pop ups. They are an accepted form of advertising and as long as one doesnt get carried away with them they arent the end of the world. Most browsers and many ISPs block the majority of pop ups anyway now so they are not a huge problem which requires the attention of the hacker community.
Regarding multiple window spawners those are not normal affiliates, I only know of ONE person who frequents CAP who does spawners and its a terrible thing to do to your visitors. I cant imagine anyone else being the least bit interested in alienating thier guests.
You keep making reference to hackers. I find it Ironic that people who break into other peoples computers, create and relase viruses and worms on to the internet and steal the work of other programmers by cracking codes would get indignant about a pop up ad.
Most of us are honest decent people trying to earn enough money to support our families. We do this through online marketing. 99.9% of the people here are NOT hackers, dont write malicious code, dont do DOS attacks on others, Dont SPAM millions of people or anything like that. We arent evil techies bent on world domination.
Is affiliate marketing perfect? Hell No!
Does fraud exist? Yes, unfortunately it does in our industry just as it does in EVERY other industry.
Can we stamp out all fraud? No, that’s unrealistic. We do what we can, but understand all businesses suffer a loss due to internal and external theft, nature of the beast.
Do we need a daily crusade to crush the evil merchants? No, most of us are earning a pretty good living online and have done so for years. We work with the partners that EARN us money, we DROP the partners that dont. It’s a simple economic formula that works. It rewards the good merchants while punishing the bad. We dont need to threaten them or hack them or burn down their buildings to achieve economic success.
Do we want to share information about unscrupulous operators?
Absolutely! That’s one of the reasons we are here. BUT…. It’s not necessary to make every business dispute a crusade or call to arms.
Calm discussion (and discrete sabre rattling) is generally all it takes to get things sorted out. We dont need a nuclear attack to erase miscommunication.
Free Enterprise is about FREE ENTERPRISE. We all have the right to build our sites the way we wish. If some one wants to put up an exit pop up on their site then ITS THEIR BUSINESS. No one has a RIGHT to make demands upon or threaten other people if they dont like the way they run their business.
I will be DAMNED if I will surrender my business or freedom of choice to some hacker somewhere who decides THEY dont like pop ups so the rest of the world better quake in fear!!! Thats HORSE SHIT!
Sorry to get so worked up, but this constant mention of hackers and black arts is making everyone uncomfortable and now it seems like that is starting to extend to threats about pop ups! Thats rediculous!