Does AdSense Have Double Standards?
Does Google AdSesne have double standard? What do you think? The answer would be yes. A bit surprised? I am.
I noticed this a few months ago and I forgot about this. Last night I was just surfing the web and I saw this. I saw AdSense ads on milw0rm (a site that shares exploits). Last time, I checked it was against AdSense’s policy to put ads on a hacking/cracking related site.
Accounts get closed (and sites even get banned) if they have a bit of hacking/cracking content. No exceptions. You can’t hide. They’ll find out sooner or later. But, why the fuck does milw0rm get to use AdSense (take a look at this screenshot)?
Now this is just crazy. Its a bit unfair, don’t you think? milw0rm has been using AdSense for years now. I’m just mad at AdSense. They treat low-traffic sites like shit and let the popular ones do whatever they want. Oh sorry, I forgot high-traffic sites make them money. So, its okay to bend the rules for them.
So, do they have double standards? Its a rhetorical question. What can we do about it? I don’t know. Contact them if you want.
I’m glad that I’m not using AdSense anymore. Plus its not like you even make a lot of money. Few dollars a day. Who cares. Do you?
3 August 2008 at 3:34 pm
Doned. I feel like I’ve helped improve the world. Wahoobidoo. I headed to http://smallr.com/871 and reported the website to Google’s team of specialists for further investigation. Who knows, the AdSense specialists may well have honestly made a cock-up—although the sinister money-hungry things you predict are more likely. Hopefully this should clear up.
I can’t stand Google AdSense. It used to be the toast of the online advertising universe, patted on the head by folks for not being animated, flashing, “shoot the duck/idiotic ad designer and win a laptop” style ads but rather inoffensive and useful. Now though, the ubiquity has rather led to users being pre-programmed to ignore such ads.
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3 August 2008 at 4:27 pm
I’ve sent an email to AdSense support myself. Lets see if they at least have the courtesy to reply back. But, I’m pretty sure milw0rm has been reported before and AdSense knows about it. I just don’t get why AdSense would do something like this.
AdSense used to be pretty good at first. People were making the big bucks. Now a days, forget it buddy. Try private sponsors.
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3 August 2008 at 7:53 pm
The chances are the Google do not know about this and your email probably will not get a response anytime soon because they must get lots of emails to go through before yours.
Freemble
http://www.freemble.com
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3 August 2008 at 8:52 pm
Oh trust me, they know about this. Its a high-traffic site. Everyone knows about milw0rm. It probably got reported tons of times over the years. The bots probably picked it up too.
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