No warning.
No explanation other than "suspicious activity" or "violation of [vaguely worded] policy."
No human to call who can help troubleshoot, other than a tech-savvy friend or relative.
No recourse.
There needs to be a technology bill of rights, not just for people dealing with Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, but also the myriad other technology operators which can disrupt our lives in an instant with some poorly programmed process or unanticipated edge case. Ultimately, the OP or my non-tech savvy employee or my mother should be able to get real answers and/or help from a human being when wronged by Google, a telco, or the local bank.
If you're not running a multi-million $ site, you're especially screwed for alternatives unless you're selling something and can get affiliate revenue.
If Bob wants to put up a video fixing vintage washing machines, he'll have to do it out of 100% altruism, because Google is going to take all the ad revenue.
Google have a fair number of monopolies. Just not using Google products is obviously not a viable option in many situations.
(Not that I recommend using it. I recommend the old fashioned ways of knowing where your banner ends up. And make sure it doesn't become one of 344 on some random site. So build partnerships, etc. Yeah, it sucks, it's work.)
Does the Amazon belongs to that list? All I have heard about Amazon support was only positive. Did you had different experience with Amazon?
Google et al. are feudalism reborn. Including the pressure to turn surviving yeomen into vassals (see, e.g. e-mail deliverability).
But that means that you become their subject in a certain sense. Lose the account, and your livelihood is threatened.
Perhaps we should advertise to Google that this costs them money.
I for one do not use or participate in most Google things because I don't want the one service I use messed up.
The whole "tie everything together" approach they took back in 2010 or so is wrong from the get-go. If I'm in Gmail and use the same browser to go to to YouTube, I'm forced to use the Gmail id, and if I "log-out" in YouTube, my email session is also closed ... say what?
Still no idea why though. At the time people online kept going for all kinds of conspiracy theories. Like there were over 20 people I spoke with who got their account banned for ‘suspicious activity’ when they reached 15k$/mo. Mine was exactly cut off at that point as well. I don’t know; it did teach however me I will never do anything ad based; it was a long time ago and ads weren’t considered evil, although after this I definitely considered them as such.
The hardest part of offering something like this, I would think, would be that if you were to be the one offering the service, you would likely need to be very selective about who you brought on, because trying to appeal on behalf of too many scammers (the vast majority of complaints -- though not OP) would get you ignored and ruin the whole thing. That, of course, is assuming that someone running a GARaaS service wasn't a scammer to begin with.
No thanks Google.
Seems like google thinks you have another Adsense account, so remove the “you” from the equation if you cannot find which other google account that might be.
One of my colleague got his account banned when he lent his laptop to his acquaintance who had a banned play dev account.
@app.route("/appeal")
def appeal():
return "<p>Computer says no.</p>"