this is the latest email i had received from Adsense:

Hello,

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program.
We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense
Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate
your patience during this transition and here are some alternative
options to consider:

* Google Affiliate Network: As part of the integration of
DoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will now
operate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targeting
users located in the United States. Similar to the AdSense
Referrals program, the Google Affiliate Network enables publishers
to apply for advertiser programs and get paid based on
advertiser-defined actions instead of clicks or impressions. For
further details, please visit:
www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork.
* AdSense for content ads: If you have less than three AdSense
for content ad units on a page, you may wish to replace the
referral ad units with standard AFC ad units.


If you currently use referral ads, either to promote Google
products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, AdSense Referrals
code will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August.
We encourage you to take the following steps before the product is
retired:

* Remove the referral code from your site(s): Please take a
moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last
week of August, so you can continue to effectively monetize your
ad space.
* Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop: Create
and save all reports related to the referrals program on your
desktop, so you continue to have access to your valuable campaign
information


Why is this happening?
We're constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing
and supporting features which drive the best monetization results
for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing
features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most
effective in the long term. For this reason, we will be retiring
the AdSense Referrals program. If you have any additional
questions, please visit our Help Center:
http://www.google.com/adsense/suppor...py?topic=14882

Sincerely.

The Google AdSense Team

Hi,
You'll hear about this soon enough, plenty.
So I'll address the questions most others will ignore because, they don't know the answer, they are not serious enough, whatever the objection may be... etc.


You ask in thread title "whats taht mean..?"
taht does not mean anything in English, it is a typo in this context. A transposition of the 'h' with the 'a' gives you 'that' which does mean something to all of us (I think).


AFC an interesting acronym we do not see much of in this forum, or in online biz in general (unless you are Da*v*id D. / Eb*en Pag*an). It was coined by the lot over at FastSeduction mail list and stands for Average Frustrated Chump.

I am intrigued that ppl at Goo*g did not spot this and used it for their aff. net. I guess that alot of them are AFCs and don't even know it yet.

well yes hehe, it was fast writhing mistake with 'taht', had to be 'that' excuse me

woooot? No more fire*fox referral thingy? Meh that's gonna cost me a few grand each month :-(

Naah that can't be gotta read that again

Advertisers that are implementing earnings per sign up seems to be getting less nowadays; except financial related business. I guess, either Google starts to feel the cost or maybe firefox browser installed in so many pc already.