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Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by toxican »

crucialfelix wrote: post #62
maaaats wrote: post #13

If you ever think about relying on Google for your business, this linked thread is a good reason not to. You are at the mercy of helpful volunteers while Google is stonewalling anyone from ever reaching them and getting help.

business.google.com is like this too. No possibility to get our locations verified, all the "helpful" links just lead to the black hole of the forum.

And god help you if your location is in a new development that isn't on Google Maps yet. It just jumps to the "closest" address by name. Suddenly "Chamber's Hill" becomes "Chamber Drive", which is 5 miles away in the middle of a residential neighobrhood.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by rincebrain »

illumin8 wrote: post #72
zzleeper wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On my phone, I switched from Chrome to Firefox because many websites had ads that used the phone vibrator, others redirected to the play store, etc. It's insane and you can't disable it from Chrome...

What? Android lets websites vibrate your phone and launch the Play store without permission? That's insane. This is one of the reasons I will never have an android phone.

There's an HTML5 API for vibrating devices, including phones; this isn't necessarily an Android-specific problem, and there are legitimate reasons for browser content to use features like vibration. (It isn't implemented in Safari, but it apparently works in other browsers on iDevices.)

The Play store launching without permission I haven't seen, so I can't guess at.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by jeffmould »

bitJericho wrote: post #40
maaaats wrote: post #13

If you ever think about relying on Google for your business, this linked thread is a good reason not to. You are at the mercy of helpful volunteers while Google is stonewalling anyone from ever reaching them and getting help.

My mom called MS about a problem with Edge on Win 10 and they resolved it over the phone within 5 minutes of her requesting they call her. If google ever did that id be completely shocked. Do they even have a phone number?

Google does have help, but it is difficult to get, and not well publicized. For Adsense products you need to hit specific revenues to "unlock" help levels. For example, I think it is $25 a week in revenue to have email support. Then if you do more than $500 a month you can get chat support. And finally, the holy grail, is doing enough revenue to get your own account manager, but they don't tell you what that number is.

For Google apps, if you have a business account ($5 a month per user no minimum), their phone support is incredibly good. You can call right in, talk right with a support person. I have had to call a few times on migrations for email and some issues with Google docs and the support has been nothing less than impressive.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by nathanaldensr »

t0pz wrote: post #20
jasonwen wrote: post #17

This year we will stop using AdSense altogether. No support at all and the payouts have been declining every year. With the increase of ad blockers, even less encouraging to use ads in general. Sometimes I wonder, are ads as we know it, dead? Everyone hates it, has real usability impact and security risks. Didnt get the email though...

Let me provide you with some insight into your bewonderment: 1) I work in the Ad technology industry and i can tell you with confidence that ads are far from dead. The human logic of "We hate it, so it must not be working" is understandable but condradicting the actual data entirely. I look at this data on a daily basis and i can tell you that Ads have increased by a LOT in the last 10 years. They are also working fo…

Sorry, but you're not enlightening anyone. Maybe there was no real business model to begin with. What you're essentially saying is that the demands of bloggers to make money are more important than the security, privacy, and experience of web users. I and many, many others don't see it that way.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by spiderfarmer »

mau wrote: post #84
ungzd wrote: post #81

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Facebook is against web outside Facebook.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/audience-network FB Audience Network is already in Beta for Mobile Web [1], they might investigate to expand this business for Desktop Web too. [1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/audience-network/mobile...

They should.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by spiderfarmer »

jeffmould wrote: post #94
bitJericho wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My mom called MS about a problem with Edge on Win 10 and they resolved it over the phone within 5 minutes of her requesting they call her. If google ever did that id be completely shocked. Do they even have a phone number?

Google does have help, but it is difficult to get, and not well publicized. For Adsense products you need to hit specific revenues to "unlock" help levels. For example, I think it is $25 a week in revenue to have email support. Then if you do more than $500 a month you can get chat support. And finally, the holy grail, is doing enough revenue to get your own account manager, but they don't tell you what that number i…

Even if you get an account manager, you cannot call him/her directly. They'll only call you.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by kasey_junk »

zeta0134 wrote: post #28
t0pz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me provide you with some insight into your bewonderment: 1) I work in the Ad technology industry and i can tell you with confidence that ads are far from dead. The human logic of "We hate it, so it must not be working" is understandable but condradicting the actual data entirely. I look at this data on a daily basis and i can tell you that Ads have increased by a LOT in the last 10 years. They are also working fo…

While I appreciate your viewpoint on adblockers, being in the advertising business yourself, that is not enough of an argument to convince me to disable mine. I find the entire practice of invasive advertising to be a huge disservice to users in general. There is one type of ad my ad blocker regularly fails to block: original, vetted content put in place by the site owner, that does not come from a third party. "Spon…

The online ad industry is already gearing up to monetize/systemize/data mine "organic" sponsorships. The third part aspect will just be more hidden.

I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing but the ad industry absolutely wants to make ad content relevant but they also want to track it. The tracking part is just easier...

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by raverbashing »

madeofpalk wrote: post #79
marak830 wrote: post #63

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This. That damn vibrate is so annoying. Especially as someone who wakes up 30 mins before my alarm, and decides to read news on my phone with my wife asleep next to me.

Here, and people say that Apple is holding back 'the open web' by not implementing all these web standards. Maybe people will start realising why...

It will be like Motorola shipping "the first Android tablet with Flash" then quickly giving up on the idea

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by coldpie »

RubyPinch wrote: post #69
t0pz wrote: post #59

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aside from the fact that less than 2% of users actually do this, it is still quite arbitrary how they determine intrusive and non-intrusive. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt to improve on this. But the amount of trust given to Adblock Plus is ridiculous. They are a money-grubbing extortionist company that is in no way improving the advertising landscape at the moment. They are just taking full advantage of the…

Can you give a couple of examples of how you feel it is arbitrary? And you are not really giving any "benefit of the doubt" by calling them scammers straight out, are ya?

> Can you give a couple of examples of how you feel it is arbitrary?

He can't, because it isn't. Their acceptable ads policy is dead clear, and yes, it takes time to verify new entries and maintain that list, so they charge money to get onto it.

Personally I use uBlock Origin for technical reasons, but I have no problem with AB+'s acceptable ads program.

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