AdSense Disabling Arbitrage Accounts by June 1st

[Freddy81]

They told me my account will be disabled at 1st June, and also added that I'll receive payment for all outstanding earnings in accordance with the standard AdSense payment schedule.

For this day (17 May), does it mean that they will pay for April 1-30 earnings, or for May (1-18) also?

[content_adj]

Are people still getting the "disabled" email from google?

[Scurramunga]

Are people still getting the "disabled" email from google?

Not sure, but one can only hope.

[Marcia]

>>like an idiot

Lacie, I know exactly the attitude you're referring to. You can see a lot of it coming across online, too.

[Scurramunga]

Attitudes don't matter. In the end it's all comes down to which of these business models prevail and which of them sink.

[RonS]

I disagree.

I think that in the end it comes down to how you feel about yourself when you go to bed at night.

1) Do you feel proud of yourself that you were clever to find a way to game a system and earn tons of money, just like a successful con artist would feel, or

2) Do you feel proud of yourself that you have provided a truly valuable asset to the world and have been duly rewarded for your efforts, just like a successful fine artist would feel.

I like #2, personally.

[zett]

I like #2, personally.

RonS,

I couldn't agree more with you on this.

However, I'd like to point out that your view (and mine, too) is pretty much based on western culture. I guess people living in other (poorer) regions of the world just can not follow us in this regard. To them, any day that they earn any money using whatever means might be enough to sleep well at night. And if it is really a helluva lot of money, they will even brag about it. The more the merrier.

Intellectually, I can understand that some MFAs, who made a lot of money, are angry now, feeling cheated by Google. But this does not justify their actions and the fact that they have added nothing of their own to make the Internet (or the world as such) a better place. Just reading about their hard work and the risks they've taken makes me feel sick.

[fischermx]

Here we go with a somehow, though not exactly, "racist" comment...
What's next? :
"My culture",
"your culture",
"why all adsense publisher banned have bad English?"
and on and on...

Get the idea?

Let's stop it before it begins.

[DamonHD]

Well fischermx,

We can see that many of the banned publishers have excellent English, so unless they are Hollywood bad guys with a good education like Blofeld from the James Bond movies, we can see that the "my culture" / "your culture" split is false, just as you suggest!

The West/US/UK/whatever has no monopoly on heroes or villains, or indeed MFAers.

Rgds

Damon

[fischermx]

I have to admit that arbitragers in this thread have better English than those in the classicals "I'm banned from Adsense" threads.
But that doesn't change what I said.

[Hobbs]

>Let's stop it before it begins.

agree with you and Damon, no one has a monopoly on ethics.