I must say that Name dot com does not support blanking of all registered whois domain names as I found out one day when I thought a domain was hidden.
Well it supports private whois all of the major TLD's, but I think you'll fine you can't private whois on .us domain extensions, I assume the domain was a .us?
Using your argument, blackhat leads would then be twice as bad to generate than whitehat because you are now screwing over both the merchant and the consumer.
...Not entirely true. It depends on the Blackhat Method. Some methods keep the consumer happy (e.g. GODcpa where you redirect users to whatever it is they want after they enter their email), or some can keep everyone happy (e.g. autoblogging, craigslist and recommending them to a relevant offer).
Using your terms, whitehat will screw a consumer, but the consumer LET themselves get screwed because they didn't take the time to think about what they were doing like they would off-line. Blackhat simply screws the consumer, but as an added extra, also screws the merchant.
So you're telling me all of MaxBounty's email submits actually send users their 'free ipod' they are promised on the LP? Pfft... the only thing they will be receiving is a shit tonne of spam.
And how about MaxBounty's Acai offers? After users see a flog about some made up person who has lost '10 pounds in a week' so they sign up for Acai and expect to lose 10 pounds? And this is 'whitehat'?! Pfft... all they'll be losing is $100, and receiving some poor quality pills with little Acai content in them anyway.
To me, there's a very fine line between black and whitehat, and I do both so have a 'somewhat' unbiased opinion.
I agree with you, most of the time Blackhat is worse than Whitehat, but that's not necessarily the case. I see you also mentioned fake/stolen CC's - to me that's not blackhat at all, that's fraudulent leads. I think you need to open your eyes to the various methods of promotion, and stop trying to flame people here. Take a look around on here and you'll see everyone here is only trying to make some money... just like your job as an AM.
Again, without CPA I'd be fucked and jobless, but to me it's getting to the point where nearly all CPA offers are blackhat in some aspects, whereas Rev Share is more commonly home to GOOD products and services.
Why don't you look through MaxBounty's list of CPA Offers, and find ones that actually offer a great service and would be worth signing up to?... I bet there's not many, am I right?
And Steve, why don't you enlighten us BH'ers to the best Whitehat way to promote your offers? Fake Blogs? Fake Articles? Fake Reviews? Deceptive Landing Pages? What's the best
Whitehat method of promotion you recommend?!
Cheers