[RawAlex]

Ahh, the new old tricks in the porn world continue. As someone who works mostly as a porn affiliate, you learn over time that there are all sorts of ways that your traffic can disappear. While I won't name names here, I will post up a couple of funny stories, and I am sure everyone else has a few too. These are all recent for me.

One program has webmaster links on their galleries that are actually a larger graphic (200x200) positioned as the last clickable graphic on the page, and they are mostly their grand name and a small "webmasters". Clicking it takes you to a "enter main site" and "webmasters here" link. Entering the main site, not remarkably, loses all affiliate tracking.

Another program puts up image galleries, and then after a while starts to have random images drop out and go 404. The 404 goes to a page that encourages the surfer forward, while stripping off the affiliate code and replacing it with their own "house" account.

Another program randomly 6 months ago started redirecting mobile surfers out of their hosted galleries and website clicks to their mobile "portal" site. The problem? They stripped out the affiliate code and replaced it with their own house account, effectively cutting webmasters out of all of the mobile traffic.

Anyone else got some fun stories of what is done to make affiliate money disappear?