Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
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Re: Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
#2Sounds like excluding all other countries is the only solution.
Google does provide a CSV with all the AdWords recognized countries: https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/geot...
You should be able to copy the list to the clipboard and paste into the exclusion list.
Re: Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
#3I wonder how google handles vpn users, particularly in countries where vpns are fairly ubiquitous like China or even Iran. If someone in Turkey is clearly identified as a Turkish user despite having a vpn in the United States, I shouldn’t be charged for them right?
Re: Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
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Re: Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
#5The wording makes targetting useless.
But other questions came up.
Why do so many quit google after less than five years?
How does a company who's product is a push notification when someone clicks get funding?
Re: Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
#6Google bundles bad clicks like a pile of stinking, rotten subprime mortgages and then peppers them with some good clicks and sells them to you like JP Morgan in 2005.
Did you read the fine print? Doesn’t matter, you can’t redline it anyway so it’s take it or leave it.
Re: Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
#7If I am in Turkey and I google “chicken USA”, I should get shown chicken ads from the USA. And when I click, those chicken producers should pay.
Re: Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
#8The wording makes targetting useless. But other questions came up. Why do so many quit google after less than five years? How does a company who's product is a push notification when someone clicks get funding?
> Why do so many quit google after less than five years?
Usually initial stock grants are for four years. If the price goes up enough and then relatively flattens out, it can happen that one’s total compensation begins decreasing after the fourth year. That, and 4-5 years is enough time to build a sufficiently large safety net that one can attempt to strike out on one’s own.
Re: Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
#9If I am in Turkey and I google “chicken USA”, I should get shown chicken ads from the USA. And when I click, those chicken producers should pay.
It seems logical that the chance of you buying their chicken is much lower than someone actually in the US. Why should they pay?
Re: Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
#10I wonder how google handles vpn users, particularly in countries where vpns are fairly ubiquitous like China or even Iran. If someone in Turkey is clearly identified as a Turkish user despite having a vpn in the United States, I shouldn’t be charged for them right?
You might be technically right but Google is incentivized to charge you. Also, it's probably really hard (technically) to resolve your real identity.