Google Breaking Their Own Rules?
Anybody who has used Adsense for long enough and has read into Google’s TOS knows that they can be very vague, a little bit sly and at times, a bit unfair.
Generally and genuinely, I believe they try their best to provide a good service for their advertisers and publishers. But most would say they seem to sway more in favor of their advertisers. Certainly when it comes to click fraud, where a publisher may be completely innocent. Very little tolerance. Which is fair enough… well, not to the publisher but I can see there’s not much room for error on their part.
But given they seem to want to protect their advertisers so much and are constantly telling publishers to follow their TOS on ad placement, copyright, content, copyright etc it seems a bit hypocritical of them to place Adsense ads on YouTube don’t you think?
Over the past… month or so I’ve noticed Adsense ads being integrated into YouTube more which I don’t mind at all but… don’t Google’s TOS state ads should not be placed onto pages with any kind of copyright content? yet YouTube is, well… absolutely packed out with copyright content.
Now… I can recall numerous debates about whether or not Google mind you putting ads on the same page as an embedded YouTube video, given it may be copyright. I know on YouTube now, they basically put the weight on the uploaders’ shoulders so to speak, advising any uploaded content is basically the responsibility of whoever uploads it.
Fair enough, as long as Google don’t start getting on publishers’ backs about Adsense ads on pages with videos on because, I’m pretty sure when there were debates about this. Google sort of… unofficially said… no. You can’t do it. Yet they do it themselves? maybe that’s why they’re always so vague with their answers, to cover their own actions at a later date?
Then again if you take a look at where the ads are on YouTube, they’re on search results pages and generic pages etc. Not actually on any VIDEO pages. Maybe that’s Google’s little way of escaping their own rules for some more income…
google is always vague on their rules, plus youtube is owned by google, so they can argue its their property so maybe they are exempt from the rules, hypocritical, yes, but against the rules, i highly doubt it, google has a crack team of lawyers that get paid to do just that, keep them out of trouble.
I think Google is not perfect, and at times just mean…
So can expect anything from them.
in feburary they are going to change therules if you search on dp you can find several threads regarding the same issue.
Yes, this is quite interesting, but I am afraid there is nothing WE can do.