HPIC Offering Leaky Feeds
I was over at HPIC taking a look at things the other day and noticed they’ve added RSS feeds. There are two options with their new feeds. One links to TGP galleries, and the other to their free hosted galleries.
The TGP galleries are leak free, but the FHGs are riddled with leaks. This isn’t news, as their leaky galleries were discussed on webmaster forums months ago. But I am surprised HPIC hasn’t made any effort to clean this up.
HPIC has this statement about their feeds…
“All Pictures and Texts in the RSS Feeds will be linked to the website with your own code.”
While technically accurate, the statement glosses over the fact their feeds have a self serving banner in the upper right corner. Now I know most webmasters do not promote the feeds themselves to surfers, but there are some do, and HPIC hasn’t passed up an opportunity to skim from that webmaster traffic, as well.
Of course, when all is said and done, HPIC’s sites have leaks on the home and join pages, so they have their bases covered when it comes to siphoning off their affiliates’ hard earned traffic.
