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adsense_banned | 12 years ago | on: Poll: Were you banned by AdSense? When in the cycle were you notified?

I was banned 4 days before payout, and not only was my $120,000 taken and "refunded to advertisers", but they retroactively debited my account for an additional $200,000 leaving me a negative balance that I had to pay off (basically show free ads) once they re-enabled me about a month later after many appeals. All told this cost me roughly half a million in their "refunds" and my month of not being online.

And the reasons for my ban could not have been flimsier. Since then it has even been admitted to me by adsense policy team members that it was basically a mistake, though not in those words, as they could never give me a concrete reason, so they blamed it on an older implantation of some of their code... An implementation that an adsense support rep had suggested I use just a few months prior.

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