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I get the "We think your business is a scam and so we are terminating our relationship" but I don't understand why "... and we'll keep the money." doesn't result in criminal charges.
I actually emailed Adsense support at that time to let them know that it was out of the ordinary for my site.
Additionally, I also had an account on the CPA affiliate side of things with the same account that was banned because it was tied with the Adsense email account.
I get the "We think your business is a scam and so we are terminating our relationship" but I don't understand why "... and we'll keep the money." doesn't result in criminal charges.
It appears that Google did something different this time, I don't know what.
I get the "We think your business is a scam and so we are terminating our relationship" but I don't understand why "... and we'll keep the money." doesn't result in criminal charges.
All ad networks take money away from publishers all of the time. For example, it takes a while to compute the quality score of ad clicks and realize that a site's traffic is full of bots that click on ads and never buy anything. The publisher will see income that gets subtracted back out, sometimes a month or two later. The advertiser (presumably) gets a refund. It appears that Google did something different this tim…
I've had friends that have lost $100k+ due to Adsense terminations on legitimate sites. I've personally lost about $10k. We'll see how much I actually get paid out from this class action (I think I read that they cap it at $5k)
EDIT: see below for correction
I get the "We think your business is a scam and so we are terminating our relationship" but I don't understand why "... and we'll keep the money." doesn't result in criminal charges.
The problem lies with our justice system though. If it were more efficient we'd have less things like self-censorship and self-moderation.
One day our AdSense account was disabled, no warning, no nothing. We had never resorted to a single 'trick' or 'hack'. Nobody at Google could even tell us what exactly we were supposedly accused of.
After months of escalation, the final word was "we cannot tell you what you have allegedly done, we will not re-instate your account, you may not appeal any further".
I worked in advertising and I saw how scared AdSense publishers constantly were of getting banned by Google. I understand that Google has to defend their business, but some times they were really harsh on things that were debatable grey areas. I always thought that Google was just needlessly giving itself a bad reputation as a business partner. $11M is about 1 hr of Google's revenue (365 x 24 x 11/100000 = 0.96) EDIT…