[b00ty4breakfast]

I don't get the impression that the OP was deliberately breaking the ToS. That doesn't mean they weren't violation but you usually inform someone when they are breaking the rules, even if you are taking punitive measures. It would be like arresting someone and never telling them what they are being arrested for. Not only is it scummy behavior to not tell them but it also doesn't effectively communicate to others that the thing won't be tolerated.

[sanswork]

If I hire someone to do a job for me and find out they are breaking rules to try and get additional money from me and my clients I don't owe them anything.

The scummy behaviour is agreeing to only put the ads on content pages then immediately putting them on search result pages to attempt to extract more money from advertisers.

I feel like you're not quite understanding the level of fraud in advertising. There is a reason all the networks are quick to fire publishers/affiliates because the ones that aren't go broke paying out for fraud.

[b00ty4breakfast]

If you don't think that people are entitled to know why their service is being terminated then I don't think we having anything else to discuss. enjoy your day

[sanswork]

Even though Google provides the software to manage the interaction the publisher is the supplier in this agreement, they tried to defraud the client.

No one owes anything to someone that tried to scam them out of money. I also don't send replies to every phishing attempt explaining why I'm blocking their email.

Go click on new with readdead enabled. Do you believe HN owes every banned spammer an explanation on why their account was banned?