$11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
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$11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
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Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
#2I 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: This actually reminded me of that post a few days ago on HN, about the guy comparing foxes and racoons with some companies in the financial industry, and how some could be winning at the game but losing at the meta-game. Google should be more careful with its meta-game.
Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
#3I get the "We think your business is a scam and so we are terminating our relationship" but I don't understand why "... and we'll keep the money." doesn't result in criminal charges.
Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
#4I get the "We think your business is a scam and so we are terminating our relationship" but I don't understand why "... and we'll keep the money." doesn't result in criminal charges.
Because the publisher agreed to that when they started the relationship?
Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
#5I get the "We think your business is a scam and so we are terminating our relationship" but I don't understand why "... and we'll keep the money." doesn't result in criminal charges.
What's even worse is that they won't tell you what you allegedly did wrong. You can appeal, but you have to guess what you did wrong and provide evidence, but you can't even access your click data anymore since you're now locked out. It's like being in a relationship with a psychotic person.
Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
#6What the title has to do with the page? I could not find this $11M anything on that page!
Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
#7I get the "We think your business is a scam and so we are terminating our relationship" but I don't understand why "... and we'll keep the money." doesn't result in criminal charges.
Because the publisher agreed to that when they started the relationship?
You can sign your rights to class action lawsuits away, too, but I still find it wrong.
Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
#8What the title has to do with the page? I could not find this $11M anything on that page!
>What the title has to do with the page? I could not find this $11M anything on that page!
It is on page #9 of the settlement PDF: http://www.adsensepublishersettlement.com/docs/settlement.pd...
"1.44. “Settlement Fund” means a cash fund of $11,000,000, to be paid by Google in accordance with the terms of this Settlement Agreement. "
and later on the same page:
"2.1. Settlement Fund. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Google shall establish a Settlement Fund of $11,000,000. Google’s total financial commitment under this Agreement shall be $11,000,000. "
Later there is the order in which this amount will be paid, the actual people which suffered from the thing will be paid last (only after deduction of expenses, services, etc. which it is easy to presume will not be "peanuts").
We'll see how much people that were affected will actually get back.
Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
#9I 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…
11 million is a joke really. I only lost about $250, but it pretty much killed off an otherwise promising potential startup.
Re: $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
#10I'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)