a couple of years ago I was playing with faucets but I never heard about the faucet referrals. Most of them I collect from ref links on my faucet site.
I did not expect that the faucet industry still lives. Is it possible today to make some profit as well as a faucet owner?
I think faucet owners can answer this answer best. But from what I see it's really difficult to monetize faucets. Most of faucet owners get money from advertising networks just to cover faucet payments to users. If they somehow manage to get profit - it's tiny and unsignificant.
Any idea of buying faucet refferals? At first usually it's against their tos and will ban you for this reason, almost every faucet will do that. You have to get refferals in white way, then if you only want refferals on faucet website, I want to remind you: quality over quantity. You get bonuses from their faucet claim, not from their registration and inactivity.
Where did you got that buying referrals isn't allowed. I think it's pointless to buy referrals, but I don't see any TOS which forbid to do that. It's just important that your bought referrals wouldn't abuse faucets by breaking rules of it, like multi accounts and similar ones.
At first if you buy referral, for me this means someone will just register on your referral link and everything ends here. Then when faucet owners see that you have a lot of inactive referrals whom have logged in only once when account was created, they can easily freeze your account if you win much with that reason (you tried collecting referrals in a bad way). Don't know actually, thay's why I said "I think" and wrote argument.