Comment by throw_m239339

4 years ago

What can I say... Oh yeah, that Google owes me a lot of money after terminating my adsense account for false reasons and added insult to injury by sending me a 50€ adword voucher to my _physical address_ like it solved anything?...

It was like 10/15 years ago, now everytime I have an opportunity to suggest businesses I work with not to use any of Google services, including GCP, I do exactly that.

I'd say, unless you signed an actual contract with Google, which agreeing to a bunch of random TOS really isn't, do not ever rely on Google services or SAAS, and certainly do not build your startup on any Google stack.

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ta1234567890  4 years ago

> now everytime I have an opportunity to suggest businesses I work with not to use any of Google services, including GCP, I do exactly that

What would you recommend as a good alternative to google (and Facebook) ads?

  • edoceo  4 years ago

    Reddit is like the #4 site in the USA. Can get pretty targeted too.

    • ta1234567890  4 years ago

      Good suggestion. Unfortunately Reddit is not that popular for the target demographic I have in mind (B2B in a Spanish speaking country).

  • josephcsible  4 years ago

    Why do you say "(and Facebook)"? Even if Facebook were this ban-happy, a lifetime ban from them is way, way less disruptive to most people's lives than a lifetime ban from Google is.

    • 2cb  4 years ago

      I realise this is an edge case, but if you don't have an FB account but you set one up to create a page for your business and set up ads for it etc, it'll likely get shut down very quickly by FB's algorithms. So basically if you are a non-FB user you cannot use FB ads.

    • ta1234567890  4 years ago

      I personally dislike FB. I don’t have a FB/Instagram/Whatsapp account and would hate creating one just to run ads.

      Unfortunately I feel like 90%+ of my target audience uses Google for search and at least one of FBs properties. It’s hard not to want to advertise on those platforms.