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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Or at least some evidence. Any evidence. And no, possibility does not count as evidence.so,do you have any evidence for your extraordinary claims?

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First, it's happened to me personally with $40k, and a friend of mine with $200k. Neither of us were sending them any invalid traffic. They seem to choose the publishers to whom they do this almost at random; another friend of mine makes over $100k/mo with them and has had no issues.

Second, both the Business Insider article I linked to and a simple Google search for "Adsense lawsuit" will turn up scores of people that have gone through precisely the same experience. This isn't an isolated incident, it's simply the way they do business.

s/almost at random/via machine learning/

If that's the case, then their machines have a learning disability, at least as applied in my case and those of a few people that I know.

Why? Did you manage to get your money?

> extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

This doesn't seem extraordinary. I commented the OP should provide more, and I was skeptical, but it doesn't seem extraordinary. In fact, given OPs post and the parent(and numerous others) anecdotes; it seems quite ordinary and logical.

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