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Understanding Adsense TOS - Help please

by madrox
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I have a question that make me headache and looking for a solution for weeks now. Finally I decided to post that here.
Let's say I have a video site that might contain semi nude (not pornographic or hardcore) thumbnails automatically generated from the video + other normal video thumbnails. There is a filter and user can set on this to not to show mature contents too.


My question is, is it OK to have these kind of thumbnails on a page with Adsense ads? As an example: A user has uploaded a video with semi nudity and I have that thumbnail on my recent videos page with Adsense ads or in a search result page.
I noticed this is happening in both of Metacafe and Dailymotion below are the links (Warning: Links may contain semi nudity)

metacafe (dot) com/videos_about/1707_molip_2003_avi/
dailymotion (dot) com/relevance/search/fashion+midnight/1

(You may have to set family filter OFF)


HOW THEY DO THIS? WHY GOOGLE DON'T BAN THEM?

I was managed to not to display Adsense ads on watch pages and category pages that contain mature contents. Same as above sites.
#adsense #adsense tos #google #tos #understanding
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    The answer is No.
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    • Profile picture of the author madrox
      Please read the issue completely. Don't say "NO" as soon as you see ADULT.

      I have an active adsense account and I'm planing to show adsense ads on my new site, tubemaxvid(dot)com

      This is a video sharing site like YouTube. But users can upload adult (NOT PORN / ONLY SEMI NUDE AND TOPLESS) but in a different section of my site (18+ CATEGORY).
      * There is no adsense in the 18+ category page or in the 18+ watch video pages.
      * By default, site has a family filter and won't display mature contents to users.
      * If the user turned off the filter, and if there are mature contents in search result pages or default pages, still site will display a thumbnail saying 18+ and not safe for work instead of adult video's thumbnail. And this link will be linked to the watch page with no Google adsense.

      ** I have reserved ad-blocks in my site with word, Default. These are the ad-blocks that I'm going to use for adsense.

      Please review my site, tubemaxvid(dot)com and help me to figure this out. I really appreciate your help.

      Thank you very much!
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      • Profile picture of the author Cade21
        Yukon provided you the correct answer, but you want to argue. Since it is your Adsense account, you can treat it however you wish. Just remember, once it is terminated, it is gone for life. No amount of apologies, pleading, or threat of lawsuit will restore your account.

        With Google, you start in the final round.

        Good luck.
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        • Profile picture of the author madrox
          Originally Posted by Cade21 View Post

          Yukon provided you the correct answer, but you want to argue. Since it is your Adsense account, you can treat it however you wish. Just remember, once it is terminated, it is gone for life. No amount of apologies, pleading, or threat of lawsuit will restore your account.

          With Google, you start in the final round.

          Good luck.
          Actually no. I'm not arguing with anyone but I'm arguing with my self because of "tips-for-maintaining-adsense-friendly.html" and some sites I have seen (m__cafe or dai__motion).

          But I'm not following anyone either. I wanted to make sure so I asked here also in many forums and Google too.

          Second time I briefly explained my issue. No argues; I agreed with him so I haven't placed ads.

          Thanks
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