AdSense ban - is there a cure?

Lots of years ago I got banned from AdSense for a stupid joke (or maybe it was intended as a favor?) a person made. It was (hard to guess?) clicking on them links.

I lived witout AdSense all those years, probably missed a couple of $$$, but it wasn't very painful. Now I see an easy way to start earning in micro-niches, the (splendid) specialised hosting I have for this purpose doesn't even allow HTML snippets (!), not to mention AdSense alternatives.

Those alternatives, by the way - does anybody know anything closer about them - don't seem to convince me. Some have dead links on the signup page... Others display the same ad the whole time on my page, and not very targeted to that... Others require that I present them my site where I intend to use their ads... Which is stupid, for why would I build a site of that sort, if I don't have AdSense or any good alternative?

So, if somebody could suggest any way out of this terrible impasse - other than totally changing my identity - I would be INFINITELY GRATEFUL.

I mean - either some way to get AdSense account again (I promise I will be a good boy!) or some REALLY GOOD AdSense alternative (but this, though interesting, wouldn't be quite as good option for me now.)

(By the way, the URL in my signature is for the membership site I've just bought, and it may still not be visible, as it is being worked on. But soon it should be fully operational and then I invite everybody to join. I hope it's not spam - I just wanted to explain why the link in the singature may be dead.)