La_Valette - 7:48 pm on Aug 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

Lame_wolf: we're not asking to be readmitted to Adsense. For what it's worth, we think the TOS violation there was trivially minor but that's not the point here. We gave up that battle a long time ago and we've moved on - we have no interest in running Adsense ads anymore.

We broke no TOS etc on Google Affiliate Network, and it makes no sense to effectively terminate our account there because the only option now will be to get payments via Adsense. It's bad business for all parties concerned (us, our merchants, and Google).

As regards your other points/comments: we're not trying to say this is Google's or anyone else's "fault" or "blame". We're just pointing out that it is totally senseless to end good publisher-merchant relationships on a different platform over a completely unrelated issue like this.