Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers

Re:Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel ph... by waterphone on Friday November 18, 2016 @12:57PM (#12988633)

Because they falsely accuse people of things, often—especially with AdSense—and that's it, you have zero recourse, your account is permanently dead. There are a ton of people who have been accused of invalid click fraud on AdSense and got banned, but who never clicked their own ads. The common Google and Google fanboy reply is to dismiss those claims and say people are lying, but I can tell you from personal experience that while maybe some are, not all are.

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Re:Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel ph... by tn13 on Friday November 18, 2016 @01:47PM (#12989079)

Google's Adsense is a fraud outright. I run a small news website where few people contribute. Almost all content is original. Adsense never approved by website claiming the site has no original content.

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Re:Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel ph... by bradleyjg on Friday November 18, 2016 @01:08PM (#12988719)

The answer is to work on the accuracy of the process, not to throw up their hands and stop trying to ban scammers.

For this story in particular did anyone come forward to say that they had been banned that didn't participate in the scalping scam?

There's a culture of impunity out there on the internet were people think they can cheat the system and nothing will ever come it (think manufactured spending for example). Well, sometimes something does come of it. Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.

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Re:Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel ph... by mahyarm on Friday November 18, 2016 @01:15PM (#12988797)

They will never be accurate enough, because it costs too much. The easier and more just solution is to just ban people off of the ad platform, and leave the gmail & other services alone.

If there is email abuse, then you ban from gmail, youtube abuse, from youtube, etc.

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Re:Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel ph... by x0x0 on Friday November 18, 2016 @01:28PM (#12988926)

Buying a piece of hardware and reselling something you paid full sticker price for is now cheating the system? That's quite an expansive definition you have.

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Re:Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel ph... by omg_ketchup on Friday November 18, 2016 @01:41PM (#12989031)

Sure, but if you steal a piece of candy from a store, they don't burn down your house and remove your mailbox. And delete every record of your existence.

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Re:Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel ph... by kllrnohj on Friday November 18, 2016 @01:38PM (#12989005)

> Because they falsely accuse people of things, often—especially with AdSense—and that's it, you have zero recourse, your account is permanently dead.

In the case of AdSense that may be true but there's no evidence here that anyone was falsely accused.

People scalped. People got busted. That's it. The only "problem" is that some of the scalpers were stupid enough to use their real accounts.

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