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Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts

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Post by jkaplowitz »

smartician wrote: post #15
apandhi wrote: post #10

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)

Yes: "... Payments to each of the Class Representatives, not to exceed $5,000 each, as compensation for their active participation in the case on behalf of the Settlement Class ..." EDIT: see below for correction

As your quote notes, Class Representatives mean people with "active participation in the case" - i.e. the members of the class who spend their time dealing with the class lawyers and showing up in court as named plaintiffs.

This would be separate from anything that class members receive just by being class members.

Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts

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Post by Franciscouzo »

BaconJuice wrote: post #19
RasputinsBro wrote: post #2

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…

Hi, could you reference me to your edit article? Would love to read it!

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Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts

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Post by smartician »

jkaplowitz wrote: post #21
smartician wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes: "... Payments to each of the Class Representatives, not to exceed $5,000 each, as compensation for their active participation in the case on behalf of the Settlement Class ..." EDIT: see below for correction

As your quote notes, Class Representatives mean people with "active participation in the case" - i.e. the members of the class who spend their time dealing with the class lawyers and showing up in court as named plaintiffs. This would be separate from anything that class members receive just by being class members.

Good catch! From the agreement document: "“Class Representative(s)” means each and all of the named Plaintiffs in this Action: Free Range Content, Inc., Coconut Island Software, Inc., Taylor Chose, and Matthew Simpson"

So that clause means that the plaintiffs will get up to $5,000 on top of what they will receive as claimants, and there is no such limit on claims (but the total payments will not exceed 11 million, including attorney and class representative compensation).

Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts

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Post by tluyben2 »

Seems most people here had the same experience. I do not understand why their practices are not actually illegal. We sent them tons of traffic (aka money to them) and they just terminated without any explanation or recourse. 11M sounds very low; we had a small company and we already lost several $100k.

Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts

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Post by apandhi »

smartician wrote: post #23
jkaplowitz wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As your quote notes, Class Representatives mean people with "active participation in the case" - i.e. the members of the class who spend their time dealing with the class lawyers and showing up in court as named plaintiffs. This would be separate from anything that class members receive just by being class members.

Good catch! From the agreement document: "“Class Representative(s)” means each and all of the named Plaintiffs in this Action: Free Range Content, Inc., Coconut Island Software, Inc., Taylor Chose, and Matthew Simpson" So that clause means that the plaintiffs will get up to $5,000 on top of what they will receive as claimants, and there is no such limit on claims (but the total payments will not exceed 11 million, in…

Great to know! Here's to hoping they pay out the entire amount I'm owed.

Thanks, Guys!

Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts

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Post by Zhenya »

jezzadebate wrote: post #18

This one still stings, even though it was years ago. I built and ran a mobile sports news application, we amassed millions of users and were written up in several publications. 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 w…

Did you involve legal council?

Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts

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Post by djsumdog »

Back in the early 2000s I ran Google ads, back when they were only text and small boxes. You had to earn $100 to get a payout I think, and after forever I still had like $12. I forgot about it and eventually pulled the ads. In 2011 I sold the domain to some Irish company that gave me $10k USD for it. ... kinda regret it now.

It looks like I have the same Google account (found the old e-mails for adsense on that domain) even though I have nothing listed under adsense right now.

I no longer run ads on any of my sites and probably never will, but it would be nice to get that fucking $12 for letting Google run all those text ads for those years.

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