How does this affect Google Pay? What about Google Domains? Bleh. I don't really like all-in-accounts anymore. Much rather have separate silo'd accounts.
Recently, however, a Google AdSense sales rep reached out to me trying to sell me on AdSense. I explained the past situation and that I was "banned", but this sales rep was apparently able to get that lifted and get me back into the program. I never ended up using AdSense, but I now have an open account that isn't blocked anymore. Might help in your situation if you ever run into a Google sales rep.
If your viewers are recurrent, then you might want to ask them to support you via a 3rd channel such as patreon?
You need not lose revenue from the content you create through alphabets' vague rules and products.
In fairness, Alphabet's "don't ever defraud us" rules are quite clear, and it's hardly surprising they don't trust someone with that on their record.
You seem to be arguing that a technicality should allow you to use other ad mechanisms, but that's not how real work risk analysis (or morality!) works.
You get the same treatment from banks: default on one loan and they'll tell the others (via credit reporting agencies), because that information is something they need to make good business decisions.
At least in the US, negative events on your credit report disappear after 7 years.
If you commit fraud against a bank, I find it highly dubious that such bank will ever accept your business again, even if others do (after a decade).
I mean, extending your point: does the grandparent sound appropriately contrite to you? If you read that comment and had to decide whether or not to sign an ad service contract, would you?
Edit to be even clearer: OkGoDoIt literally describes the fraudulent theft of hundreds of dollars as a "silly freshman experiment"! Is that a situation you think Google should be required to forgive?
Required? No. Appropriate? Yes
It’s possible, but won’t have the same reach. Best bet would be switching to content type specific platforms like twitch.
There are hundreds of millions of people at neutral with google. Letting someone reset to neutral doesn't harm them.
A straightforward requirement for forgiveness, even after a decade, should be at least a little bit of contrition, no?
When this kind of logic gets sufficiently lazy it becomes discrimination.
Because it simply is not true that something someone did 20 years ago as a teenager is a good predictor of their behavior as a mature adult now. Applying that logic is essentially a lazy heuristic by a company that can't be bothered to do anything more than the most shallow fraud analysis. In the case of Google, which has such deep knowledge of its users and such a robust data analysis competency it is particularly egregious. They could probably figure out in a few seconds that this person is not really a high fraud risk. They simply don't care to bother doing so.
If one has done some silly experiments in the past, it may be reasonable to create a new Google account as the "regular and important", and get email old redirected to it.
This kind of online hygiene will only become more and more important as online identities calcify.
My YouTube account used to be somewhat separate, but during the whole Google Plus integration timeframe they forced you to tie it to your real identity. Which just goes to cement the original point of the dangers of using one master account for so many different services, things that used to be separate end up a mess. See also my various Skype, Zune, Xbox Live, MSDN, Office 365, and Windows accounts which cause me so much annoyance now that Microsoft has integrated a lot of the backend.
Anyway not trying to justify the questionable morals of a college freshman, but it's good to keep in mind the downstream effects of a seemingly minor infraction when multiplied by one corporation controlling so many different types of services.
How does that work for corporate accounts? Surely an employee can't be expected to submit personal information on behalf of their employer.
Heads up, you just admitted to fraud in writing from an account mentioning your employer, an employer in a regulated industry.
There are plenty of people today living with the consequences of their adolescent actions. Adsense fraud is by no means the worst example.
As someone who was never tempted to do this, even during 3 months of homelessness, forgive me if I don't shed any tears.
Perhaps some regulation is needed, at least in areas where one company wields enormous market power.
[0] That may sound unlikely now, but executives come and go and things change rapidly. How do you think Uber under Kalanick would handle this kind of power, for example.
I told him long time ago to deGoogle himself as much as possible but he didn't listen. Now he can't access anything. It's ridiculous. But that's Google for ya.
I hate having to log in and remember passwords. So something like Google WiFi love able to just use my Google account. As well as Google photos, home, email, bookmarks, docs, drive, YT TV, YT Red, voice and even unlocking devices and such. Love even my wifi password being passed by my device instead of having to share.
I look forward to when my Google account unlocks my car and starts it.
Because of that I refuse to buy anything with my Google account
I can't split my Email from YouTube (which I really enjoy as products and am very active on YouTube), so if those get locked, I can still live most of my life.
For instance, I have a Google account for using Google (the search product), but a separate account for YouTube, and if I used Google Domains or Gmail, I would definitely have separate accounts for those things as well.