AdSense Account Suspensions

Users discuss frustrating experiences with Google AdSense accounts being banned, suspended, or disabled for vague reasons like invalid clicks, policy violations, or click fraud, often without effective appeals or payout of earnings.

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ph4rsikal Nov 3, 2025 View on HN

My AdSense account was suspended three times because I had an exclamation mark in my ad. I closed my account after that. I am certain Google still tracks my account as "potential fraud" to this day.

Deadsunrise Jun 30, 2011 View on HN

They don't do that. I have my account blocked on adsense/adwords since 2006. Some "illegal" clicks bullshit that wasn't my fault. I can still use any other google service without problems, it just tell me I'm blocked if I go to adsense.

dave333 Oct 2, 2021 View on HN

This is par for the course with Google. Many Adsense accounts have been terminated for similarly vague policy violations. I am sure they catch a lot of bad actors, but they also catch a lot of folks who have no clue what they have done wrong, in many cases losing a large part of their income. Google does send warning emails, but they are so vague as to be useless in figuring out the violation.

jnazario Dec 3, 2012 View on HN

i suffered this several years ago. even had a good friend explore, in person, the team who banned me. no movement, no appeal.my adsense account still shows hundreds of dollars to pay out that they wont. sadly no other easy to launch-with ad tool (e.g. yahoo) for a regular home user with a site can yield much money. they really have a monopoly, and this behavior just screws people.in this scenario, fuck google.

forcer Aug 29, 2019 View on HN

We were suspended once for serving deceptive ads. Yet the only ad network we use is Google Adsense. We had to remove Google Ads to be allowed back in.

Hates_ Jan 14, 2016 View on HN

I've heard of people having their Adsense account disabled or Adwords campaign rejected because of it though.

yellow_lead Dec 12, 2022 View on HN

Considering asking users to click ads is against Google Adwords TOS, they probably got banned.

jitendrac Oct 30, 2019 View on HN

I built a blog in 2008 with few articles and luckily got my account approved in Adsense. after a month I was banned for lifetime with reason of invalid clicks and violating terms. I still don't know why that happened? last I try to re-apply in 2013/14, again I was reject for no reason.I can really see a monopoly of google in this ad-space. because they can always throttle our traffic if we use other network.

pja Apr 30, 2014 View on HN

Say you don't agree with a particular site that's using adsense. You could (for instance) have you and all your friends click over and over again on the ads on that site, which Google will quickly flag as fraudulent.Any site that attracts a large number of fraudulent clicks is going to get their AdSense account banned. The site owner has no recourse if this happens to them: they agreed to it when they signed up in the first place - Google can drop them for whatever reason they feel

defraudbah Nov 3, 2025 View on HN

did you pay for any ads to google? otherwise no wonder you get suspended