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aks232on Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?

Sorry, I only spotted some auto-correct typos after the ability to edit my reply had passed:

"(but not the list revenue in the meanwhile if course). turns out they had a big they didn't admit false flagging my site."

Should say

"(but not the lost revenue in the meanwhile of course). turns out they had a bug they didn't admit, false flagging my site."

aks232on Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?

I used to make decent amount (for my purposes) around $1000 a month. This was when the ads were based on the content. Then a few years ago they based ads on the user (as personalisation is all the rage) which for me was ridiculous as my site was about general social, political and environmental issues, so you'd end up seeing an add about shoes or something you were shopping for on another site which was completely unrelated to why people came to my site and completely out of context so the ad clicks and revenue dropped while site usage was growing. No way to reach a human to change it back. Some option on AdSense implies you can but has not worked.

Also at some point got banned for false clicks except the site they said that was violating their policy was not mine. Their automated responses of course did not help. Only a few months later a friend of a friend who luckily worked on the team was able to reinstate the account (but not the list revenue in the meanwhile if course). turns out they had a big they didn't admit false flagging my site. Wonder how many others they caught out...

Have ended up sticking with them as don't have time to look for alternatives (tried Chiquita but not very good). (The site is a side project only.) Would like to build my own niche for maybe non profits only, though I'm sure someone has done that already so I probably need to just invest some more time to look into it more...

aks232on Mystery tracks being 'forced' on your Spotify

Reused passwords that appears in breaches maybe?

aks232on Physicists used atomic clocks to test the theory of general relativity

That was more interesting than I expected! Good to test basic assumptions otherwise taken for granted

aks232on Open source e-commerce front end in Angular

This is nice. Curious, have you checked SEO which is crucial for many e-commerce sites given the JavaScript dependency? https://moz.com/blog/javascript-seo

aks232on Ask HN: Do you write code on the train? What's your setup?

I try not to sit on my 45 minutes commute. Invariably a pregnant lady, elderly person or someone else who needs a seat more than me will come along...

Edit: this is in London, so the tube gets pretty packed during the rush hour