Have you noted this

Announcing Google Affiliate Network

thread and got your auto email with no reply from the AdSense team saying:

"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".

My bolding. With whom, the new network?

Hopefully this is clarified when I come from my summer holiday, unless I have to change / delete a lot of code on my sites

Hopefully the new network is an improvement.

Any information on how that project develops?

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