Google retiring AdSense Referrals...

[Jordan]

I received an email from Google last night stating that AdSense referrals are being retired. Here is an excerpt from the email:

If you currently use referral ads, either to promote Google
products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, AdSense Referrals
code will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August.
We encourage you to take the following steps before the product is
retired:

* Remove the referral code from your site(s): Please take a
moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last
week of August, so you can continue to effectively monetize your
ad space.
* Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop: Create
and save all reports related to the referrals program on your
desktop, so you continue to have access to your valuable campaign
information


Why is this happening?
We're constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing
and supporting features which drive the best monetization results
for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing
features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most
effective in the long term. For this reason, we will be retiring
the AdSense Referrals program.

If you are using Referrals I suggest you remove them.

[Xav]

Yeah, I got this today.

[LambHost]

That's a shame.

[Xav]

Although maybe they're not as useful as the other type of ads.

[designstartup]

They're worth while links if you run a site for web masters.

[Jordan]

How much did you make from referrals?

[Xav]

Erm... nothing.

[jessje]

it was to be expected, removed some links to.

[TcM]

Is this for Adsense referrals? or we can't even make a referral link for other sites, for example to refer people to codecall? (using our referral link)