Ik had gehoopt nog eens te kunnen berichten over mijn wedervaren met de mannen van Adsense (zie Leve Google, Persoonlijk, Nog altijd robots, en Nog meer robots).

No such luck. Ik heb mijn laatste brief ondertussen al van verschillende e-mailadressen verstuurd, maar ik krijg geen antwoord meer.

Dear Adsense Team,

My last mail may have gotten misplaced, perhaps by a spam filter of sorts.

Just in case you didn’t get it, I’m sending it again from a different e-mail address.

The code in the subject was #28868889, and this was the body of the mail:

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You must have misread my previous e-mails.
Nowhere did I ask to be reinstated into the programme.

Neither did I ask for details about how your monitoring technology works or what specifics you found.

I notice AdSense seems to be taking a lot of flak lately for being too lax in dealing with “click fraud”, to the point of being sued for it. On the other hand you have apparently singled me out for committing click fraud while I am absolutely sure I did not.

What am I not doing?

– I am not threatening to sue you.
– I am not asking for the money my website made you and me.
– I am not asking to be reinstated in the programme.

What *am* I doing?

1a. Trying to understand what went wrong so I can avoid doing it in the future (and don’t point me to your terms and conditions, as I’m pretty much sure I didn’t violate them).

1b. Trying to get a confirmation whether my account was shut down for something someone else did and not me.

2. Trying to get to talk to a real person (a simple “hi my name is X and I know this situation sucks but here’s what happened” would be a good start).

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Best regards,

Michel Vuijlsteke

Ik denk dat ik er niets meer van zal horen.

Daar staat tegenover dat ondertussen Maarten het ook vlaggen heeft. Maarten werkt bij een bedrijf dat net iets meer clout op het interweb heeft dan ondergetekende, misschien dat hij er iets van kan maken.