Google bots killed my Adsense account I never used

4 points by ffhhj 4 years ago

I opened a single Adsense account in 2017 and have never created ads with it, just wanted to understand the process and keep it ready in case I need it some day. Today they sent me this email:

Hello,

This email is to alert you that your publisher account (Publisher Code: pub-923XXXXXXXXXXXXX) was found to be non-compliant with the AdSense program policies and as a result, it has been disabled. Because of this, the ability to serve and monetize through all products which depend on AdSense will be disabled (for example, AdMob and YouTube).

We continually review all publishers according to our program policies. During a recent review of your account, our specialists found that it was not in compliance with the following policies:

Violations found: Enables dishonest behavior: We do not allow content that:

    helps users to mislead others.
    promotes any form of hacking or cracking and/or provides users with instructions or equipment that tampers with or provides unauthorized access to software, servers, or websites.

Review the full policy (including examples) in the Help Center.