How it is possible AdSense is tolerating warez site for so long?

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How it is possible AdSense is tolerating warez site for so long?

headriad

6:14 pm on May 28, 2015 (gmt 0)

there is this site with online warez movies. It's serving AdSense from same AdSense account-id since at least September 2014.

Site has quite a lot traffic (more than 1 000 000 / month )

Domain is already banned in AdSense, but if you inspect source code you can see ads are served via iframe/embed.

I am 100% sure AdSense team is very well aware of this publisher and what he is doing.

It looks like if you have enough traffic and you are eager to break rules google will tolerate you (maybe you are generating them nice money)

What I dont understand is why I never saw something similar with much bigger similar sites.

I also think sites like this are possibly stealing revenue from legit adsense publishers who follow rules (advertisers dont have infinite budget )

[edited by: martinibuster at 8:17 pm (utc) on May 28, 2015]
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graeme_p

8:55 pm on May 28, 2015 (gmt 0)

1 million unique visitors a month? Not that big, certainly not big enough for Google to treat as a special case, especially if ads are low volume.

headriad

9:57 pm on May 28, 2015 (gmt 0)

I reported that site in 2014 and it got banned as you would expect.
Owner then started to host AdSense ads on random free hosting subdomains and served them via iframes/embed on his warez site.

I reported this maybe two more times manually.
Reported subdomain got banned every time.

He was so persistent in creating new subdomains on freehostings I decided to write quick python script to fully automate reporting.
He got banned another 20 - 30 subdomains from AdSense. After some time they just started to ignore my reports.

This all happened in 2014 site was much smaller than today.

He still continues to operate from exactly same account-id like in 2014 still doing his iframe/embed stuff :\

As I said I think sites like this are eating advertisers budget (not necessarily wrong for advertiser if such traffic converts) but def. wrong/not fair for legit publishers as it may affect their CPC

netmeg

12:08 am on May 29, 2015 (gmt 0)

It is what it is. Google doesn't catch everything. Surely there's a better use of your time after all this time.

trebuchet

7:59 am on May 29, 2015 (gmt 0)

Yes, scumbags getting away with stuff like this means less money in the pot for the rest of us. Thanks for your efforts trying to shut him down, headriad.

netmeg

12:32 pm on May 29, 2015 (gmt 0)

getting away with stuff like this means less money in the pot

How so? Any effect is likely to be way indirect and way small.