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My Adsense story - 1 billion impressions and shut off with no explanation

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Re: My Adsense story - 1 billion impressions and shut off with no explanation

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It seems feasible to me that a reasonable person could see a gallery of the "worst car crashes" as violent, your definition or mine of violent could vary but it does fall under the bounds of what people could understand that term to mean (i.e violence doesn't only mean harm to people). Glorifying car crashes is definitely in an iffy area (you have to remember that in some places it's not unheard off for people to ste…

I understand that. My complaint isn't that they labeled it "violence". My complaint is that they did not give me an explanation and they refuse to clarify which photos constitute "violent" images. Basically, no response from them.

This, after I had been using them since the inception of Adsense with no problems. They even used me as a case study a few years ago where they sent Adsense employees to my house to watch me use the Adsense interface for usability purposes.

It just leaves a bad taste when they treat their "partners" this way. I just want to speak with someone who can clarify my situation, that's all.

Re: My Adsense story - 1 billion impressions and shut off with no explanation

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Similar story here, although I'm happy I got had this unpleasant experience with my first big website and learnt not to use them ever again.

This was my first website, over 2 years it had around 80M impressions and then suddenly, one day, everything gone. I was actually planning to drop out of school to continue with it as I had days where I was making $500-600 per day. Took a critical hit and the site actually fell through due to it. Fortunately, it happened before I dropped out and I'm happy about that, I try to avoid all ad networks now and try for private sponsors.

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