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by techdragon 1438 days ago
I’m just going to say … it’s fucking atrocious that Google can be in a business relationship worth 70k, owe another business seventy thousand dollars, and they can just go “you know what, we don’t owe you shit, and we’re not going to even tell you why”.

This sort of shit should be illegal. Google for all intent except the legal obligation, in a legal relationship pertaining to the money you helped them make, they should not be able to fuck people over like this.

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My first take is that making $50k your first month is pretty quick growth and looks suspicious. Also, something chatbot-based sounds a lot like spam content generation and that's something Google monopolizes for itself.

(I'd say at least half the time that somebody is complaining about unfair treatment by Adsense they are really guilty and trying to defend themselves like the murderer in an episode of Columbo.)

For context our ads are run entirely on mobile (have updated the post to reflect that). We had an initial consultation with them before turning on ads and they even gave us an estimate. Our implementation was pretty simple too, we just sometimes showed the user an ad when before they could chat with a bot.
I got banned for something than I think is related, showing ads with little content around.

Google loves to make people spend time skimming text to gather what they need.

Even if this is true, google shouldn't be able to determine that on their own and keep your money , such a system can be so easy to abuse as we have seen with copyright owners and the youtube content ID system.