Hot take: you should be scoring your networks the same way they secretly score you.

Hot take: you should be scoring your networks the same way they secretly score you.
Build your own trust scorecard and update it monthly:
— Payment reliability: have they ever "reviewed" a payout into oblivion?
— Shaving signals: do conversions vanish at suspiciously round percentages?
— Communication: do they warn you before policy changes or after they cost you?
— Exit risk: how fast could they freeze your balance with zero recourse?
Most affiliates treat networks as gods and themselves as supplicants. Flip it. They're vendors, and vendors get graded.
Agree? Fight me in the comments.