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That sounds extremely annoying. I hate sites with a bunch of surveys, downloads and all that other stuff. I think something like that is mainly useful if it's for guests only so that they will be tempted to login. Interesting. The only problem I have with this is that I don't want any 'content-locking' that involves downloading stuff cause those kind of networks give people viruses.
I understand that I could be annoying having to complete a survey in order to gain access to a content or to a page, but CPA doesnt end there. You can choose to monetize your exit traffic, for example, people that goes to your website and then exits and goes to another website, upon exit it will load an interstitial page asking users if they are interested in an advertisement.
About the download offers, I have found that they dont contain viruses, but what they may contain is adwares which is pretty much software meant to find out the demographics and the popular searches people do on sites like google, bing, etc but viruses as in a virus that actually damages your computer, or places your computer in a zombie IRC army or something like that, I haven't seen that on any of these three mayor network.
All what I can say is that I am making alot of money using these networks. AdscendMedia for content locking, CPALead for Exit Traffic monetization and AdworkMedia as my backup content locking network. None of these networks have banned me and they do pay. After first having created wordpress blogs with unique "How-to" content and successfully monetizing that and seeing how good they pay, I have decided to design a new site, a social site that allows people to sign up to upload their content so that other people can download them. Other people will have to complete a short survey in order to unlock their content and in turn they earn a commission when that happens. So far, everything is going great.
In conclusion, I can say that this bad experience that I went with Google Adsense enabled me to search for other opportunities to earn money online in a different way. Had Google not banned me today probably I would not have heard about the idea of content locking and I would not be making as much money today with Google Adcense. But again, if you do not wish to do Content Locking, you can always monetize your exit traffic. Exit traffic is just that Exit traffic, traffic which you can't do anything, traffic that that you can't sell anything to or present anything to as they are people that are leaving your website. The only way that I can think of monetizing this traffic is by presenting a list of relevant ads to people that are leaving your site. Normally this works in a type of a javascript popup box people get telling them if they really wish to leave your site, and at the same time one main advertisement loads, if they like what they are seeing then can choose Stay, if not they can choose Leave and they will finally leave your site.