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It might seem that way to you but it's not true. You can talk about AdSense all you want, as you and many others did commenting on this story. What you cannot

by kjksf 16y ago

It might seem that way to you but it's not true. You can talk about AdSense all you want, as you and many others did commenting on this story. What you cannot do, for obvious reasons, is to entice people to click on ads. It doesn't matter how subtle the encouragement is, how good are your intentions, how many kids you still have to support, how many kittens you saved from certain death. It is against the rules that are both obvious if you think about them and spelled clearly in AdSense agreement and violating that agreement gets you banned from AdSense. I'm also making money from AdSense and the simple reality is that if Google doesn't take steps to limit the kind of click fraud that this guy openly, if very verbosely, admits to, it'll hurt everyone else who's not matching it and in the long term will hurt everyone, period, because there will be less money in the ecosystem if ad publishers feel ripped off.

Confusion 16y ago
It is against the rules that are both obvious if you think about them and spelled clearly in AdSense agreement Laws are also both obvious and spelled clearly. Nevertheless we need judges to interpret them according to each situation. Even with those judges in place, we still accept that some people will be punished for moral behavior, while others will walk free for immoral behavior, because a law cannot possibly cover every situation under which it will apply. In this case, it seems to be the regrettable situation where someone is being punished for moral behavior. Regrettable, but perhaps unavoidable. However, that's as far as you should be willing to go. Trying to justify Google's actions by accusing the one that was punished of immoral behavior is not necessary and not warranted.
- shpxnvz 16y ago
  it seems to be the regrettable situation where someone is being punished for moral behavior Someone is being held accountable for a contract they willingly entered. The morality of the behavior is not at issue - moral or not they legally agreed not to do it. The rest, IMO, is hand waving.
mhansen 16y ago
I agree with you, but I think your appeals to 'the obvious' and 'the simple reality' are weak.

by kjksf 16y ago

Confusion 16y ago

It is against the rules that are both obvious if you think about them and spelled clearly in AdSense agreement Laws are also both obvious and spelled clearly. Nevertheless we need judges to interpret them according to each situation. Even with those judges in place, we still accept that some people will be punished for moral behavior, while others will walk free for immoral behavior, because a law cannot possibly cover every situation under which it will apply. In this case, it seems to be the regrettable situation where someone is being punished for moral behavior. Regrettable, but perhaps unavoidable. However, that's as far as you should be willing to go. Trying to justify Google's actions by accusing the one that was punished of immoral behavior is not necessary and not warranted.

shpxnvz 16y ago
it seems to be the regrettable situation where someone is being punished for moral behavior Someone is being held accountable for a contract they willingly entered. The morality of the behavior is not at issue - moral or not they legally agreed not to do it. The rest, IMO, is hand waving.

mhansen 16y ago

I agree with you, but I think your appeals to 'the obvious' and 'the simple reality' are weak.