I made this page with the purpose of educating the public about AdSense. Maybe you have had a good experience with them, but I haven’t. As of March 11, 2009, I have lost faith in Google's motto entierly. It was them who had said, “don’t be evil” and for many occasions they have stood by this principal, however when they directly stole from me, I though they did something entirely out of line with their motto. At the time my account was canceled stating invalid clicks, I had over $20 in advertising income, but they don’t want me to know that since they lock off access to the AdSense control panel after your account gets disabled.

I send an appeal to Google using their AdSense appeal tool, which does not require login, and got a canned response back that read:

Thanks for providing us with additional information. However, after thoroughly reviewing your account data and taking your feedback into consideration, we’ve re-confirmed that your account poses a significant risk to our advertisers. For this reason, we’re unable to reinstate your account. Thank you for your understanding.

Understanding what? I do not understand any of this! They are correct, I do pose a significant risk to Google’s advertisers... I put up this slanderous page. Take it from me--If you’re new to the game and are considering AdSense for publishers, just forget about this scam. It’s just not worth it to put time and effort into placing ads in the best places and consider where the user will click just to have the money taken away from you like an dumb animal trying to get the toy off the string.

In the words of Aaron from the Huffington Post, who had his accounts terminated:

In the meantime, Google also has a problem. The fact that it conducts smear campaigns against small business owners suggests that the “don’t be evil” ethos of its founders and early employees is a thing of the past. Google (presumably, since no one else knew) even notified bloggers and/or The Huffington Post of the appeals court ruling so that what I had written in my previous post might be somewhat nullified. Fair enough. In response, I would suggest that if the company really must be evil, then in the interest of avoiding additional embarrassment, it could at least try living by a useful, if somewhat less ambitious, motto: “Don’t be assholes.”