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This feels the same like google blocking me from using adwords; it said we definitely violated something they didn't specify and were banned for life. We sold p
by anonzzzies 3y ago
This feels the same like google blocking me from using adwords; it said we definitely violated something they didn't specify and were banned for life. We sold productivity desktop software b2b. Not porn or animal abuse or guns or whatever.
- mike_hearn 3y agoThey have special rules for advertising desktop software. I hit the same issue but wasn't banned. Eventually it got mostly sorted out. The most irritating problem: Apple forbid the use of any of their trademarks in Google advertising, for any reason whatsoever. That means you cannot make an ad like "Foobar for Mac" because it will trip their filters. Manual reviews and escalations don't help, the only solution is to get Apple to fax Google a personal permission letter granting authorized use, which is of course impossible. This absurd problem has existed for at least a decade. Presumably it's deliberate and to push people towards the app stores by preventing Mac developers from advertising their app outside of Apple controlled channels (which aren't comparable). Windows has no such difficulties.