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Originally Posted by the indigo
Sleazy, we do advertising on your site.
Let's say we buy a banner for $2000.00 per month. We renew every months for 4-5 months.
Now, you realize the product we are promoting via your site is selling well, and that the ROI must be interesting. You tell me to stop advertising so you can put your own banner promoting that product on your own site.
Would you do that?
I guess no, but it happened to us a few times... and it's okay (not ethic) since you are the owner of your site and can tell anybody to GFY if you want.
Fleshlight doesn't own google.com / yahoo.com but by enforcing their TOS on ALL Search Engines, they are trying to "own" that traffic... which is not fair to affialites doing the worldwide branding, especially for such a "brand/type-ins" product.
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i try not to cross compete with my advertisers. I advetise AFF myself but did that before I started selling ads and don't allow anyone other then me to market dating sites on my tgps. it's the only only thing i advertise other than my own stuff and have done it since 1998
but thats just me
personally I think...
there is a case for trademark there......
just cause one company does it doesn't mean another won't
i'm not going to say it right or wrong - everyone has different ways of marketing THEIR product and at the end of the day it's THEIR product so they make the rules for THEIR product.
as long as someone is upfront about it - it's fair game. their rules are THEIR rules. if you play in their sandbox you play by THEIR rules. if they change the rules - honestly - that's fair game as long as they give you fair notice of the rule change. in their sandbox they can make and change the rules any time they want. 
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