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Ads and AdSense
Banned for invalid activity. No, they will not say what.
AdSense terminations arrive citing "invalid traffic" with no evidence, no specifics and the last payment period withheld. Publishers describe appeals denied in minutes. On the advertiser side: spend on placements nobody asked for, and metrics that cannot be audited by the party paying for them.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on Google Sucks
Filed under other categories, by people it happened to.
Account termination or lockout2026-08-07
Locked out of a Google account: what still works, in the order to try it
One account holds your mail, your photos, your phone, your logins and your two-factor codes. When it closes there is no phone number to call — but the recovery paths are not equally useless, and the order matters.
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