Meet the Company Hijacking New York Times Ad Revenue

Re:Meet the Company Hijacking New York Times Ad Revenue by charlieirish on Sunday October 21, 2012 @11:21AM (#4679867)

I'm surprised we haven't seen more of this. I fully expect companies like refer.ly and skimlinks.com to implement this model with a twist: share the revenue with customers.

Customers could install the extension/plugin and browse sites as normal. However the ads they see would be earning them cash.

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Re:Meet the Company Hijacking New York Times Ad Revenue by sbarre on Sunday October 21, 2012 @02:13PM (#4680321)

Yeah that was tried over 10 years ago with AllAdvantage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage

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Re:Meet the Company Hijacking New York Times Ad Revenue by paulgb on Sunday October 21, 2012 @12:59PM (#4680072)

This would violate the TOS of Amazon and I'm pretty sure most other similar programs.

In general I don't expect skimlinks' business model to work. Referral programs exist to incentivize linking to your site, not to share profit with a third party when a user of their site would have linked to you anyway.

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