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Re: Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card

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Post by ghettoimp »

scohesc wrote: post #116
jonknee wrote: post #2

Google's classic canned response of "We've confirmed we're right, we will not tell you why and this is the last reply you'll receive" is one of the most infuriating things I can imagine. I make my income primarily through AdSense and live in fear of that email one day. In this scenario it seems pretty obvious that their automated fraud AI messed up, but the customer service person is probably also automated. They hav…

It's absolutely fucking mind-boggling how these large, impenetrable silicon valley companies (mainly google here) like to hide behind their "algorithms". "Oh, sorry your main method of making money was terminated, we won't tell you why or how we came to that conclusion - must have been the algorithm, sorry!" What's that old saying - "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"? I'm star…

I don't disagree with anything you have said. But, if your main method of making money is dependent on some particular entity continuing to do whatever they are currently doing, you have a problem.

Re: Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card

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Post by ineedasername »

Everyone reading this that ever has a problem like this with Google support should write it up and submit it to HN. Then we as a community should come together and upvote the hell out of it. The more these things get publicized in the industry the harder it will become for Google to do this without repurcussions.

Re: Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card

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Post by jacekm »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #113
lonelappde wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What was the debunking?

It's linked in the top comment. https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/8l231x/google_banne... Not so much a debunking as an absolute denial that the circumstances described transpired. It's difficult to prove a negative.

> Not so much a debunking

Yup, 'debunk' is probably not the best word here. English is not my native tongue, I apologize. What I meant is that a different opinion was presented by Google. But you're right - it's still one word vs another, it's impossible to determine who is telling the truth.

Re: Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card

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Post by kube-system »

howdisposs45 wrote: post #75
jonknee wrote: post #2

Google's classic canned response of "We've confirmed we're right, we will not tell you why and this is the last reply you'll receive" is one of the most infuriating things I can imagine. I make my income primarily through AdSense and live in fear of that email one day. In this scenario it seems pretty obvious that their automated fraud AI messed up, but the customer service person is probably also automated. They hav…

>in this case people literally trying to give you money! Gmail for Android has 2 core functions: to send and to receive mail. It fails at one of them. (Emails get stuck in its outbox indefinitely - you can force it to send by going into the "outbox" and dragging down to refresh, which is an action that has no button to show it is possible. There is no notification that your mail wasn't sent.) Here is a thread about i…

Easy. Google’s CEO runs an advertising company.

You assumption is that the app has two functions functions: sending and receiving email.

It actually only has one function, put eyes in front of ads.

Re: Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card

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Post by rapind »

jonknee wrote: post #2

Google's classic canned response of "We've confirmed we're right, we will not tell you why and this is the last reply you'll receive" is one of the most infuriating things I can imagine. I make my income primarily through AdSense and live in fear of that email one day. In this scenario it seems pretty obvious that their automated fraud AI messed up, but the customer service person is probably also automated. They hav…

My theory is that Google is now being run by robots. They maintain a few token humans to propagate the facade.

Before you disagree, ask yourself, would you know if they were(n't)?

Re: Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card

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Post by kamyarg »

WalterBright wrote: post #11

I learned the hard way to always have at least two ways people can buy things from you. Never bet your business on another business that uses algorithms to arbitrarily disconnect yours and algorithms to respond to customer service inquiries.

Paypal says hi :)

Re: Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card

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Post by MikeGale »

I have no idea whether this is relevant.

I noticed that the site has reviews of anti-tracking products like Ghostery and Privacy Badger. (The reviews are a bit thin in my opinion.) Google may view those as existential threats and work to remove that material from the web.

Re: Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card

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Post by ineedasername »

bagacrap wrote: post #114
jxdxbx wrote: post #26

Google's actual policies state that it accepts virtual cards. https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2375433?hl=en

which makes me think this person was banned for some other violation

Could be! The problem is we'll never know because Google's awful support makes it impossible to know what you did wrong, only that you did something and you're being punished and too bad if you want to know why.
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