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Re: Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18

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Post by rrwo »

Shank wrote: post #15

As someone who operated on the "adult internet" with payment processors and related infrastructure without being 18, I still carry forward the constant fear that I'll be banned for retroactive Terms of Service violations incurred when I was a kid. It really sucks when it's services like AdSense because you're just screwed forever. I really really wish the internet was more supportive of "early hackers" who want to ex…

Companies cannot legally provide a lot of services to minors.

For other services there is enough bureaucracy that it's easier to avoid by not providing the service to minors.

It's also easier to ban accounts for life when they lie about who they are. You don't run the risk of aiding fraud and being fined if you make a mistake, because you banned them.

There was nothing preventing the kid from creatibg content. It was in using Ad Sense to make money off it.

Re: Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

Shank wrote: post #15

As someone who operated on the "adult internet" with payment processors and related infrastructure without being 18, I still carry forward the constant fear that I'll be banned for retroactive Terms of Service violations incurred when I was a kid. It really sucks when it's services like AdSense because you're just screwed forever. I really really wish the internet was more supportive of "early hackers" who want to ex…

You can just use a friend's account ? There is no way of banning someone really.

Growing up with the internet it always felt these companies were playing with fire. I can't explain it. The 90s were a wild time I guess. That generation knows about using fake names and addresses.

I guess I have never seen these businesses as proper businesses like the local mom and pop shop whose owner you know and respect and who respects you.

But google and other such companies always feel like they are trying to use you and you are trying to use them.

Re: Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18

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Post by Devasta »

xboxnolifes wrote: post #122
doodlesdev wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I beg do differ. When I was a kid I used to have a YouTube channel with AdSense. Difference being I actually read the ToS and decided that it would be my parents channel, only I would be recording. Never clicked on my channels ads (in fact that's when I started using AdBlockers, for the sole purpose of not generating fraudulent ad revenue). Reading at 16 years old is not that hard. I created that YouTube channel much…

Are you making the claim that since you didn't make a mistake at 16 that no other 16 yo can make mistakes? As well as the claim that any mistakes made at 16 means that the person will forever repeat those same mistakes for life?

He spent his teenage years reading terms and conditions, let not pretend he didn't make mistakes.

Re: Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18

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Post by Method-X »

rrwo wrote: post #131
Shank wrote: post #15

As someone who operated on the "adult internet" with payment processors and related infrastructure without being 18, I still carry forward the constant fear that I'll be banned for retroactive Terms of Service violations incurred when I was a kid. It really sucks when it's services like AdSense because you're just screwed forever. I really really wish the internet was more supportive of "early hackers" who want to ex…

Companies cannot legally provide a lot of services to minors. For other services there is enough bureaucracy that it's easier to avoid by not providing the service to minors. It's also easier to ban accounts for life when they lie about who they are. You don't run the risk of aiding fraud and being fined if you make a mistake, because you banned them. There was nothing preventing the kid from creatibg content. It was…

Sure but that doesn’t mean they should be banned for life. If you commit a crime as a minor does that follow you around for the rest of your life? At least where I live, it doesn’t.

Re: Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18

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Post by jollyllama »

Shank wrote: post #15

As someone who operated on the "adult internet" with payment processors and related infrastructure without being 18, I still carry forward the constant fear that I'll be banned for retroactive Terms of Service violations incurred when I was a kid. It really sucks when it's services like AdSense because you're just screwed forever. I really really wish the internet was more supportive of "early hackers" who want to ex…

I remember registering with an non-adult affiliate marketing company as a kid. I'm pretty sure they knew I was young and they just didn't care. Either they used that as an excuse to rip me off or none of my leads ever converted lol

Re: Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18

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Post by BudaDude »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #132
Shank wrote: post #15

As someone who operated on the "adult internet" with payment processors and related infrastructure without being 18, I still carry forward the constant fear that I'll be banned for retroactive Terms of Service violations incurred when I was a kid. It really sucks when it's services like AdSense because you're just screwed forever. I really really wish the internet was more supportive of "early hackers" who want to ex…

You can just use a friend's account ? There is no way of banning someone really. Growing up with the internet it always felt these companies were playing with fire. I can't explain it. The 90s were a wild time I guess. That generation knows about using fake names and addresses. I guess I have never seen these businesses as proper businesses like the local mom and pop shop whose owner you know and respect and who resp…

Forgive me if I am incorrect, its been years since I have used it, but don't you need to link a bank account and social security number to receive money from Adsense?

Re: Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18

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Post by evilotto »

code51 wrote: post #2

A 13-year-old boy sets up Adsense for his Youtube channel and his father is told that his son is now banned from Adsense/Admob for a lifetime. This is what you get when you have no humans in the loop.

If the 13-year old had killed someone, they could be prosecuted as a minor and they would go to juvie and their record would be sealed after they turn 21 and they could get on with their life.

But stealing a trivial amount of money from a corporation, well that's certainly deserving of an Internet Death Penalty.

Re: Google Adsense/Admob blocks you for life if you use it before you're 18

#139

Post by LegitShady »

pb7 wrote: post #112
LegitShady wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

its not an argument, its about the definition of the word, and how you were word policing based on your opinion that doesn't actually reflect the way the word is used. It wouldn't be an issue if you just had given your opinion instead of demanding he stop using words, which was the primary reason for my reply, because you demanding other people stop using words is insufferably arrogant.

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