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Seems like a nontroversy.
From the Google Security Department perspective, this person is a threat actor.
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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?
Granted this was 15 or so years ago so things might have changed since then.
Switched email addresses and used that instead. Although I've not used PayPal in a good while because it just randomly rejected transactions for no clear reason.
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The escape hatch is the parent opening the account in their own name. Companies don't have a choice here: Someone under 18 can not enter into a contract, there's nothing really they can do.
They can, but they can also renege on most of them. Not sure if you can do that after you turn 18 though.
I received a lifelong ban on using Google Ad products when I was 16 after experimenting with clicking my own ads (and asking my high school friends to click on them). I remember the account accumulated almost $80 before Google detected the suspicious activity and banned me. Given that this was 16 years ago, it would be nice to get second chance..
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On the other hand, The kid did lie. From the Google Security Department perspective, this person is a threat actor.
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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?