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Re:I stopped advertising and nothing happened by bmelton on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:34AM (#30945862)
It's also not necessarily guaranteed that it is in fact TeamViewer running the ad for TeamViewer.

It's a pretty common marketing practice to arbitrage referral benefits so that you might sign up for a product that offers cash referral bonuses of (let's say) $5 per signup. An affiliate marketer may take some petty cash and run some experiments, determine that ~5% of the people will sign up to an ad with highly effective copy, so then now they can run ads, potentially pay higher rates per click than TeamViewer does, and make a little passive income on the side.

Re:I stopped advertising and nothing happened by nicbou on Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:22AM (#30966184)
To add to this, this is usually explicitly forbidden by most affiliate programs.