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Never run Google ads if you have an Android app

 If Google believes you have clicked on your own adverts, Google can and will permanently prohibit your Android app. 

If you have an Android app that you care about and you're running Google AdMob/AdSense advertising, pull them down right away and move to a different ad provider. 

Google may decide to remove your Android app from the Google Play Store if they decide to ban you from AdMob/AdSense. DroidScript experienced this, and you may too.



Anyone can be banned from Google ads at any time

With its Google AdSense product, you may get paid by Google to display banner adverts on your website. With the AdMob solution, you may get paid to run advertisements in mobile applications.

Google may and frequently does remove individuals off of AdSense, citing "click fraud," without providing any proof to the people they are banning. Under AdSense/AdMob, Google pays you when users click on your advertisements; if you click on your own advertising, that is "click fraud."

I blogged a lot about it when Choice of Games, my firm, was removed from the AdSense program in 2010. 

Google will never explain the reasons behind your removal from AdSense and/or AdMob. (In all honesty, it makes logical that they withhold any supporting documentation because Google doesn't want people to know how it recognizes click fraud.)

As a result, if you are banned from AdSense, there is no reliable mechanism to appeal the decision or fix the issue. Yes, there is a "appeal" procedure, but how can you write it when the accusations against you are a secret? Only saying "I didn't do it" can ever be effective. I've never heard of someone making an appeal and winning.

The DroidScript Android app was banned for “click fraud” on their ads


The DroidScript app development team said over the weekend that Google had chosen to permanently delete the Android application due to claims of click fraud. 

Google originally terminated the AdSense account for DroidScript.

Account on Ad Exchange suspended due to erroneous traffic 

We recognize that you might wish to learn more about the problems we've found. We are unable to give our publishers information regarding specific account behavior since it might be exploited to go beyond our in-house detection system. 

Google removed the DroidScript Android app a week later.

DroidScript - JavaScript Mobile Coding IDE has been taken off Google Play following a recent review.

Suspended status for publications

A policy violation has resulted in the suspension and removal of your app.

Causes of the breach

206 Ad Fraud APK

App is an Ad Fraud policy violation.

Although being banned from AdSense or AdMob is annoying, it is manageable. You can change ad suppliers, or even completely change business strategies. It's impossible to survive having your entire Android app blocked, though.

In one fell sweep, the DroidScript team lost seven years' worth of consumers (Premium subscribers). At this time, DroidScript is powerless. Those clients have left. They attempted an appeal and received a denial autoresponder. The days of DroidScript are over.

The cruelest irony of it all is that DroidScript would never have experienced this if they had been running Facebook, Twitter ("MoPub"), Tapjoy, or any other kind of advertisement other than Google's.

Let us all learn from the catastrophe that befell DroidScript. In case you have an Android app, never run Google advertisements.

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