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[nihil]

Hi oofki,

I guess I still dont understand then.

There isn't very much to understand mate, it is a classic MITM (man in the middle attack).

It won't work though. Whilst I have absolute confidence in human stupidity, I have even more confidence in their greed

In answer to your questions:

1. The ads/site links are on websites run by "affiliates"
2. The vendor is doing the advertising.
3. The vendor gets paid for the goods and the advertiser for the contact.

So, there is no need for a parasite in the middle?

If you set up a website with details of "affiliate" schemes, people will simply visit, write down the details and then deal directly with the vendor. Thus cutting out the MITM and maximising their revenues?

Furthermore, security software will start to pick up that the initial contact is not what it should be, and will identify it as a potential MITM attack. This will get the vendors and affiliates on RTBLs, which they certainly don't want

These things are either based on trust or on providing a secure vendor billing service. The only way you can be reasonably sure that a transaction has taken place is by monitoring customer confidential information, with all the security implications that such activity entails.