Comment by toss1
2 years ago
>>Google claimed I was clicking my own ads and stopped serving them, effectively cutting off all revenue.
This draconian buyllshirt is baffling
Why can Google simply allow developers to register a list of $Revenue_Excluded devices and/or IP ranges and/or locations? You will inevitably use your own app and many ads are almost impossible to NOT click accidentally when scrolling. Moreover, testing in real life is important. There's also the (small) chance an advert might actually be interesting and you legit click-thru as a potential customer.
Instead, you basically cannot use your own app.
What good does this do for anyone, except for the Google devs/mgrs who insist on this kind of fundamentally stupid policy? Is it really that hard to do it even a little bit right?
I mean, I had a development flag where it wasn't serving real ads when I was in development mode and the copy I had installed on my own phone had the IAP active to remove ads. There is no chance I was clicking my own ads. The revenue from ads was literally peanuts anyways, I don't even think I ever saw a cent of ad revenue (you have to hit a certain amount before they will even send you a check) the ads were basically only there to get people to pay the small one time fee to remove them.
If I did get an ad payout, it was likely < $100. I honestly don't remember, I've put so much of this out of my mind.