I too agree that google ban the publishers account without any justification and we dont have a proper customer support related to adsense. They banned me before 2 months still i am sending emails to them to justify the reasons.
Seems lots of adsense clicks for strange reason are invalid. But money gogl are collecting is more than valid. I'm more than sure that they get paid for all clicks, valid or "invalid".
How do you know they are not cheating? BD company? so what? That would be first reason for me to think they are cheating, but I have other facts.
You've got one too many people in there, the report was second hand, not third hand, and there are others. But, you don't have to believe them, you have no proof of what you are claiming but doesn't seem to stop you. As far as click-fraud-detection capital being a joke, you obviously don't know how big of an issue click-fraud can be and thus the resources that have to be expended to fight it.
No one's forcing you to stay in the program. If you feel you're being cheated, close your account and move on to something else.
Well, it's kinda like how people say if you don't vote then you've got no right to complain when things go wrong. I use it, yes, but it's no real source of income for me. I use it just so I can study the mechanics of the system, and from both sides, since I use Adwords as well. I like learning how things work, as I used to do university level research work before going out on my own. I know the guy at the local corner store cheats his customers through price gouging too, but I still go there because it IS a capitalistic system after all and we DO support the system. I'm certainly not going to feel bad in any way for Google having to spend money on things like fraud detection when they still make several BILLION in PROFIT every year (every 3 months now, isn't it? I figured you would know). And, for the record, I just said it is a logically flawed system and more and more people are noticing that. I'm trained in research and observation, not spin doctoring. It's not up to me to convince people of anything, and I'm not trying to. Let them come to their own conclusions, as you and I have. While we have vastly differing opinions, I respect your right to your opinions as long as you respect mine. I'm certainly not some disgruntled idiot who clicked his own ads and now feels wronged. I'm just an observer. It's obvious from this thread poll that people are roughly divided on the issue. Let people believe what they want to believe. You won't change their opinions and neither will I.
What do I think? I think "your friend" is "you" or at least Google thinks so. The clicks were considered invalid...keep trying until you're banned.