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Eventually banning everyone is a good way to condensate spammers and scammers who will just set up a new company from time to time anyways.

I haven't thought about this before, but it could explain some of the degeneration of ads over time I have been noticing.

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My immediate thought when speed reading the blog post was "just create an advertisement company, have yourself as a client and call it a day". Sometimes we gotta fight stupid with stupid, you know?

There are plenty of ad networks. It is just that they pay like 1/10th of what Google does to the site showing ads.

We have the opposite experience. They pay more, it’s just that the average ad-quality is also lower. We actually had to raise the minimum price even higher for the network to not show tons of borderline scam ads (now they are delivering fewer ads, but they are more relevant and higher quality)

Strange. I guess it varies with what Google's magic box guesses what an add on a site is worth.

The point was to show the same adds, but from a different account that was not blocked.

Oh. Ye ok I get it now.

Interesting point. Automated bans with no recourse will mostly deter legitimate businesses. And there is a finite supply of legitimate businesses, but infinite fake ones.

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