Cliff Notes for AFF Zango Drama

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Originally Posted by gonzo

“AdultFriendFinder from time to time as a small part of its advertising budget, places ad buys with companies which some people might call adware,” Mapstead said. “One of the motivating factors in AdultFriendFinder placing such adware ads is to effectively compete in the online dating marketplace — namely if AdultFriendFinder does not place such ads, our competitors will make deals with the adware companies to place such ads to our detriment.

First of all, if Zango works for them, it sure won't be a 'small' part of their budget that gets spent on it and second, what the fuck is he talking about? It sounds like he's saying we know it's unethical, but our competitors will use it so we have to too in order to compete.

Gee, do you think his competitors shave? Sure, so I guess I can conclude that AFF has to shave to compete.

My questions is, would any honest businessman stoop to unethical practices just because his competitors did? If so, then he's not an honest businessman anymore and someone I sure as hell won't do business with. Especially when he's dumb enough to try to justify it by telling me that everyone else does it.