[vasco]

I've been banned from adsense recently, affecting 4 websites that have been live for ~10 years because presumably someone incorrectly thinks I'm incentivising hacking when none of the websites are even tangentially related to this.

Appeal denied within 2 weeks, most likely automated, no ability to recourse anywhere. And with the near monopoly on ads google has, I'm either out of pocket on server costs from now on, or have to go to a lower quality network that may distribute malware and get further impacted by Google SEO. My answer so far has been to try to not think about it, because there's no recourse unless you have friends at Google, which I don't.

[beaker52]

This is exactly what I hate about companies. They’re not human and often the “computer says no”. It boils my blood like no other.

Want to talk to someone? Try our help section. Clicked the right links to find a contact form? We’ll reply in 7-10 business days. Didn’t resolve your query? This email was sent from a no-reply email address. Pissed off? Even if you’re not we’ll repeatedly send you an unsolicited feedback request form for the next 3 weeks. Submitted your feedback? Psych! We sunk your time! It’s actually a multi-page form: now spend more time answering questions on inf-1 dimensions that our agent served you.

There has to be a better way. I’m not convinced that software is it.

[nicbou]

Have you considered affiliate links? They pay better with less disruption. Depending on what your websites are about, it might work well.