Google made an announcement yesterday that it will be making drastic cuts to the Adsense affiliate program payouts. Up until now, the program worked like this:

The current pay system (that is about to change) works like this:
• If you refer someone to AdSense who makes $5 within 180 days you get a payment of $5.
• If you refer someone to AdSense who makes $100 within 180 days you get $250
• If you refer 25 people who make $100 within a 180 day period you get a bonus payment of $2000
With the changes announced yesterday, the $5 payment will disappear, and the $250 payment will be reduced to only $100!!!

But, if you live outside North America, Latin America, or Japan, the Adsense referral program will end completely! The thing I find most strange however, is that Google is discrimination based on the publisher´s location, and not traffic origin, site authority, or language. Does it really matter if you are based in UK, when the vast majority of your traffic comes from the US?