The Death of Clickbank

The Clickbank debate has been roaring on a number of forums lately, Publishers are getting annoyed & a lot of people are starting to jump ship.
A number of rumours have surfaced about why sales are dropping, about why some big guns who regularly make sales every single day see periods of silence in their sales chart for no apparrent reason….
But lets face it, Clickbank is most probably fighting a losing battle unless they start taking on better quality products & services. Everyone has become savvy to most of the scams that were profitable on Clickbank:

1. Paid Surveys
2. Make Money Ebooks
3. “Free” Game & Movie Downloads
4. Zune & PSP Download Sites

I even doubt the legality of some of the above.
For those of you that are still pushing Clickbank hard here’s a wakeup call for you:

That’s a chart of clickbank.net (the server address that provides affiliate hoplinks) over the past 3 years. Traffic through hoplinks has fallen by around 65% since Mid 2006.
The days of making easy money from Clickbank are gone. Dead. Until they step up & offer:

1. A better tracking system that can track clickthrough & conversion data
2. A more reliant hoplink system that doesn’t lose cookie information

I personally don’t do any ppc advertising with them anymore, just organic. I can’t bring myself to waste money on advertising without no tracking then getting the same response when questioning stats & conversions.
What’s your thoughts?