Well, the day came for me as well, as I just received an email from The Google AdSense Team saying the following: So, after the innitial shock I sent immediately the following email to them: Whatever they are to reply to me I am taking their ads off my proxy right now, and will start placing other ads instead of theirs + more, like pop unders Darn, what I really hated the most was the threat of "maybe" suspending my account. Totally, totally unjust action according to me and And I really start having enough of adsense already...
Please be careful. If once you fall into their Google's sight they can do any thing at their wish. I really don't understand how MFA sites, warez and illegal MP3 sites are just fine, but legitimate sites get the boot. When will YPN be out of beta and give people a good alternative?
Crazy Rob On my site is nothing whatsoever that is adult or porn! Nor links to such sites! Why should I be punished for where the surfers are going via my site? There are NON adsense ads on these pages either... Jeez
ViciousSummer Don't want to place it here - sorry. I am also changing the site on an different server & have taken off the ads
Uhoh. I have a proxy network and about $400 from it in my account, I hope this doesn't happen to me. Sorry to hear about that, dude. That's pretty messed up. But my question is - how did they find pages users were browsing to?
^ every time a google ad appears on the page, the url/link would be added to google logs. As an aside, thats why security/privacy groups are concerned about googles dominance. You dont need the Government to snoop what links are out there, just ask Google. It would have alot of peoples Email, Searches, Websites visited.
Chatmasta, I am not a dude btw as for the rest - no idea why do they check where people are surfing to... And I told them clearly that their ads do NOT appear on the proxified pages, so it's pissing me so much off that #$%^&*() Eventually I will calm down though, and after a day or so when having placed some other ads and am seeing the results I'll be smiling again ... I hope
You even get called dude!? wow. I mean, I get called dude (and 'he'), but my avatar is pretty neuter-looking. Then again - some people are male, yet have a female looking avatar.
fortgo, isn't the same web site that you were selling vibrators and sex toys or are we talking about a different site? If that's the site, then those things are adult content.
Running adsense on proxy site is always risk. You dont have any control over the pages being visited. Most probably users will be using proxy site for illegal stuff. You may not be able to use adsense on that domain again. yeah. it happened to me also
LOL, NOOO By the way, I am not selling anything on the site you mention, as yet, and it is definitely NOT a proxy site ...
You are being inconsistent here. Your first post was I don't believe we have to trust anything you have to say here (unfortunately).
im sorry but your promoting the adsense blackhat edition in your signature and your surprised one of your sites are not in compliance?
Shoemoney, If I may ask, what has the "promotion" of the adsense blackhat edition has to do with what I explain above? None, and I mean it - none of their TOS has been broken on my proxy site. Why I do have the adsense blackhat edition in my signature is because I think best for everyone to know both sides of the coin. Simple as that. Personally I have not been using any of the BH techniques. Kh7, little do I care what you think of me, and if you believe me or not I have read in several posts here that this is the best thing one should do, if and when "G" has banned a site - TAKING THEIR ADS OFF. Jeez, why do people have to always "attack and kill" in their "kind and friendly" answers to others?
No, EV1L, I have never placed any of their ads on the proxified pages, and this is why I am so puzzled with it all
I call everyone dude. But what I mean is, don't they need to have some sort of tracking mechanism installed on proxied pages in order to view the ones that have been visited? It isn't like they have access to your apache logs. The only logs they should be able to see is those of pages where AdSense is installed.
Chatmasta, I am not good with tech stuff really, and have no idea how they know what people have been visiting. Have heard and read from several sources that they do check lots of what peple do online, so it shouldn't be a big surprice.