{"id":422,"date":"2006-11-20T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T04:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2022-11-24T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:47:09","slug":"affiliate-takedown-score-one-for-the-good-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/affiliate-takedown-score-one-for-the-good-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Affiliate Takedown:  Score One for the Good Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a report today at PC World that will warm the cockles of all honest, white-hat affiliate hearts&#8230; Court Shuts Down Alleged Spyware Operation. The site was shut down for &#8220;secretly loading spyware onto millions of computers after promising users free screen savers and video files&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Gee, sound like anyone we know and that I <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/ros-calls-zango-reply-bullshit\/\">ranted<\/a> at length about not too long ago? Seems that despite a $3M fine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benedelman.org\/news\/112006-1.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">bad practices continue at Zango<\/a> according to Ben Edelman.<\/p>\n<p>The desired result of such news <em>should<\/em> be that affiliate purveyors of such crapola see the light and go white&#8230; ya well, in a perfect world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a report today at PC World that will warm the cockles of all honest, white-hat affiliate hearts&#8230; Court Shuts Down Alleged Spyware Operation. The site was shut down for &#8220;secretly loading spyware onto millions of computers after promising users free screen savers and video files&#8221;. 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