Google lawsuit over Adsense fraud!

yes its a loada bull

The lawsuit states, "It is Google's *wrongful refusal* to pay terminated Adsense publishers the monies they have earned that is the subject of this complaint. Google's actions constitute breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, unjust enrichment, and violation of California Unfair Competition Law"

Do you think the state of California would make a statement like that with no evidence?

How about this, "Plaintiff, on behalf of itself and a proposed nationwide class, seeks damages based on, and/or restitution of, the sums wrongfully withheld from it and members of the proposes class; a declaration that Google's adhesive contract terms purportedly allowing it to withhold all Adsense funds owed to terminated publishers are *unconscionable and enforceable, and that they are invalid and unenforceable penalties in violation of California law governing liquidated damages*: and injunctive relief to prevent Google from withholding payment to AdSsense publishers under the circumstances complained of going forward."

Did you see the phrase "in violation of California law"?

How about the part where they say that Google banned >>>250,000 AdSense publisher accounts in the year of 2013? That might not be hard evidence to you but a lawyer could represent that as fairly damning evidence.

There are 754,649 members on Warrior Forum which is the #1 internet marketing forum on Google. Most members of which do not even use AdSense. But if everyone on WF was using adsense, that would be like banning 1/3 of all our accounts.

Furthermore, lets be real and use our brains for a minute. Every time Google finds some bs reason to ban an adsense account, what they're basically saying is "You violated 1 of our policies and we're not gonna tell you what that policy is unless you take us to court. But simply put - your traffic is BAD. And instead of giving that money back to the person who actually bought the traffic.... we're just gonna keep it for ourselves"??

What the f##k kind of sense does that make?

That's like me selling someone a stale piece of bread. And the person never comes back to return the bread. But 1 month later my boss approaches me and says "you broke a policy because we knew there was a speck of mold on that bread you sold 4 weeks ago... so we're gonna take that money from your paycheck and keep it for ourselves".

It Google has all these "Eagle Eye" teams working so feverishly on AdSense accounts, they should be fully capable of identifying these "violations of policy" BEFORE traffic is sold. The same way a supermarket takes bad food of the shelves so people don't buy it. But to actually sell the bad product, then keep the money for themselves... instead of giving it to the person who paid for the product.... that's the most corrupt and unethical shit I could possibly think of. It doesn't take a smart person to realize how wrong that is.

Where is the accountability when Google BENEFITS from people violating their own policies? They don't just "benefit" they make a FORTUNE from this. If Toshiba sells you a bad computer, they LOSE money when they give you a new one. But if Google sells you shit traffic, they just keep the money for themselves and ban the publisher LOL. Yeh, there's certainly no "evidence" here of any wrongdoings.

This is exactly what I've been thinking the more I read about this incident. Google's ToS are pretty clear that they can kill your account for any reason they like, what will come into question is:

* Whether or not they're legally required to pay you for valid clicks prior to the termination date.
* What constitutes a "valid click"

I would draw the line based on the action taken with the advertiser; if the advertiser is refunded for the cost of the click, then Google has deemed the click invalid - they are collecting no money from the advertiser, thus there is nothing to pay the publisher. However, if the advertiser is NOT refunded for the click then Google by their own definition considers the click valid and must pay the publisher any monies owed, regardless of their current account status.

Think of it like renting space on a billboard... if you decide you don't want the billboard anymore that's your right, but that doesn't mean you don't have to pay the owner of the billboard for the last month where your ad was still in full view.

This looks like a never ending debate...

Your only looking at this from a banned Adsense perspective.

Once again, it's impossible to apply for an Adsense account without first agreeing with the Adsense TOS which points out forfeiting money in an Adsense account If the account is closed by Google.

You can't agree with a TOS & then later say I don't agree with the same TOS when it doesn't suit your immediate needs. It's too late, you've already agreed or you wouldn't have an Adsense account.