Google terminated our business via our Google Play Developer Account

Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by tedivm on Saturday February 09, 2019 @07:23PM (#19125624)

When I was in college I ran a forum that got some decent traffic. I put Google Ads on my site and after a few months had enough money to pay for school books. I went to cash out and they suspended my account claiming click fraud and stole the money.

This is how google has always operated, and it's one of the reasons why their near monopoly on advertising is horrible for everyone.

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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by braco_alva on Saturday February 09, 2019 @08:01PM (#19125765)

This exact thing happened to me too. They claimed click fraud and terminated my account.

It was 10 years ago, and I have tried to make an appeal about it but always with the same response.

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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by kalleboo on Sunday February 10, 2019 @04:00AM (#19126985)

Exact same situation here. I don't need Google Ads so it doesn't really affect me, but I'm terrified that some day in the future it will come back and kick me in the ass somehow when some algorithm (sorry, "AI") decides that it has some significance so I get kicked out of email, YouTube, Maps, Google docs, etc

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