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Is it fair that Google bans Adsense Publishers without Proofs ?
Posted by EntrepreneurNovice • 5/24/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: google, google monopoly
Once I saw a huge surge of clicks on my adsense account in same day and immediately reported to Google. I got no answer from Google but I wasn't banned. Still, I'm now suspicious and never advertize my adsense blogs on forums. Those you see on Blog Catalogs for example are not meant for adsense but for cpa.
Google has a Regalian Power of Death on Publishers. People frauders are mostly novices and easily detected. But many publishers are hard working guys who just falled upon the prey of sharks competitors who are low level profiles and can't play the game fairly without crushing your ads by multiple-clicking on them.
In Society, if a crime is commited and you are suspected, the gov has to find the proof it is really you and not somebody else. Nothing like that with Google. This is not fair and small publishers one day or another will have a huge probability of being crushed after years of hard work.
There are technical means to prevent and detect click frauds. For example why don't Google just discard the clicks from earnings ? That would be simple and fair solution for all. Only if click frauds are repeated again and again should Google first notify the owner.
In a civilized society you cannot be condemned without a judge finding the proof that it is really you and not somebody else who did the evil. Google is unfair. She wouldn't be so abusive if she hadn't a MONOPOLY on Ads Network.
Some publishers are now challenging Google on that Monopolistic point, and I wonder when people will wake until it's too late (well I think it may be too late already sigh ...).
What's your own opinion ?
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Yes. It is perfectly fair, cause I'm sure people sign on some sort of contract stating that Google are allowed to do that.
And it has nothing to do with a "judge" or anything like that - Google is a business and people enter into legal contracts with them. So it has nothing to do with Crime, Condemned or anything remotely like that. It is just cheapening the issue trying to state rhetoric like that.
Sure it is a result of monopolies, however "people" have been warning of Google monopolies for years, yet other are greedy and want a piece of the Google pie.
So basically - the gist of the issue is - don't enter into contracts with companies if you don't want to and blame them when they uphold it.-
There are law in Business. Paypal did the same thing as Google by freezing small Merchant accounts without any proof, though it was written when you sign up that they can do so, it was an abuse of dominant position and they were condemned in a class law action suit.
So I wonder when there will be such class action suits against Google. I guess It didn't happen yet because it seems they almost target people outside the US where class action suit concept doesn't exist. France has still to vote for such legal form of actions.
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For many blog publishers, Adsense is the LEAST appealing alternative. Their $100 pay out level and the hoops you have to jump through before then mean that a HUGE percentage of their ads are served free of charge because the blogger NEVER gets to the pay out level. Really, why get all het up about a service that essentially sucks.-
If you cannot even reach 100$ it's just not worth. What I saw is people who reached Dozens of Thousand of Dollars and get banned without knowing who clicked like madness on their ads.
It seems like Google is ripping off small publishers like Paypal used to do with some small sellers who setup www.paypalsucks.com and resulted in a legal class action suit and a legal settlement against Paypal.
there's no googlesucks.com yet though, I bet there will one day.
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