Never run Google ads if you have an Android app
Google can and will permanently ban your Android app if Google thinks you’ve clicked on your own ads
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The bitterest irony of it all is that if DroidScript had been running Facebook ads or Twitter (“MoPub”) ads or Tapjoy ads or anybody’s ads except Google’s, this never would have happened to them.
This should mean that with any other advertising provider you could publish a stupid app, run it and click banners 16 hours a day to make as much as Elon Musk, but I doubt it.
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The author doesn't know how Google detects that you have clicked too much in your app. He doesn't know that Google also knows how many times he goes to the bathroom.
The bitterest irony of it all is that if DroidScript had been running Facebook ads or Twitter (“MoPub”) ads or Tapjoy ads or anybody’s ads except Google’s, this never would have happened to them.
This should mean that with any other advertising provider you could publish a stupid app, run it and click banners 16 hours a day to make as much as Elon Musk, but I doubt it.
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The author doesn't know how Google detects that you have clicked too much in your app. He doesn't know that Google also knows how many times he goes to the bathroom.
That's a good point, I'd never though about it like that.
Looking at the money side. Do other ad providers pay more than Google? I'd put some effort into changing my ads code if I thought I could earn more.
I really think not but, of course, if you risk that your app will be banned due to AdMob...!
don't you think google thought about such a scenario?
it am sure it won't work. besides the fact that google can figure out if a click was real or not google also know who clicked on the ad. what phone, country, time, etc... so it won't be so easy to ban the account of other users.
i did many switching between companies and in the end, for me, google was the best option. the fill rate is about 99.9% and the revenue for me was the highest when using AdMob. would be interesting to hear the experience with ad companies from other guys here.
that's a lot!!! should make a revenue of about 25k $
(could be much less if the impressions are from countries with low eCPM
If so, Google wouldn't have banned that guy's app (DroidScript), as he himself says he didn't abuse clicks (and obviously he didn't).