<story><title>Goodbye AdSense</title><url>http://acme.com/updates/archive/173.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>Google adsense support and appeals has always had problems, it seems if you&apos;re disabled your chances of getting any sort of support are non-existent and I assume this post is an attempt to get the issue seen by people at google (I hope it works).&lt;p&gt;On the topic of their &quot;secret&quot; detection, it doesn&apos;t work well. In 2007 when I was in high school an acquaintance had a web page with google adverts on, there was no content beyond what came with a free template he downloaded. Every day he would arrive at school, login to the computer system and click an advert on his website, he would then go home and do the same, he would also contact other people from school via instant messengers and have them do the same, it became some what of a ritual for him. He was making $100 per month from what I recall and this went on for a while. This is the sort of abuse that should be detected very easily; abuse from the same IPs with a set pattern and yet it never was... I have no confidence in a system that can&apos;t detect this sort of abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jef_poskanzer</author><text>&amp;#62;an attempt to get the issue seen by people at google&lt;p&gt;Yes, precisely.  A lot of other folks have chimed in with similar stories.  I think their process is broken and I would like to help them fix it, both for my own monetary enrichment and because I still like Google.</text></comment>
<story><title>Goodbye AdSense</title><url>http://acme.com/updates/archive/173.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>Google adsense support and appeals has always had problems, it seems if you&apos;re disabled your chances of getting any sort of support are non-existent and I assume this post is an attempt to get the issue seen by people at google (I hope it works).&lt;p&gt;On the topic of their &quot;secret&quot; detection, it doesn&apos;t work well. In 2007 when I was in high school an acquaintance had a web page with google adverts on, there was no content beyond what came with a free template he downloaded. Every day he would arrive at school, login to the computer system and click an advert on his website, he would then go home and do the same, he would also contact other people from school via instant messengers and have them do the same, it became some what of a ritual for him. He was making $100 per month from what I recall and this went on for a while. This is the sort of abuse that should be detected very easily; abuse from the same IPs with a set pattern and yet it never was... I have no confidence in a system that can&apos;t detect this sort of abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonknee</author><text>School&apos;s not a bad place to do this sort of fraud since there is a lot of legitimate traffic on the same network. That said it should still be pretty simple to flag accounts that have had a majority of clicks from a very small set of IPs.</text></comment>