Today 01/05 the account was finally reactivated with no explanation. I only ever received templated emails from their support department demanding “proof of all payments made in the last two months”. I repeatedly emailed that there have been no payments in the last two months only to receive the same email in reply. Then in a bizarre event I received an email this morning that the account was reactivated.

I have a side business unrelated to tech, and have ran some Google Ads for it in the past. The last one was in March, and the campaign was then paused and everything was paid.

I logged into my Ads account in November to start a new campaign and was met with a pink banner that my account is suspended for "suspicious payments." I followed the directions to start an appeal and I was asked to supply all payments in the past 60 days. Of course there were no payments since March. In fact, the account shows a credit balance right now.

Anyhow, I filed the appeal and since then (Nov. 20th) there has been a notice that Google Ads support should reply in "5 business days" with an addendum that "sometimes it takes longer."

After ten business days, I used "add more details" to reach out again. Now it has been 22 business days by my count. There has never been any response. There is no clue about the suspension. I have completed full advertiser verification and linked my bank account.

Anyone out there from Google who can help support take a look at my issue?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38737940

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# Comments: 2

> I think CS curricula should have a class that focuses specifically on these issues, on the matter of how do you actually write software?

Are you really opposed to "a class" on writing software being included in CS curricula? CS courses have plenty of writing software.

The MPD approach is far better because each person's client view is a shared view of a single playlist. People can all add or update that playlist together.

No "law" of software or business is technically a law in the same rigorous sense that a scientific law is. But that's not why we call them laws and it would be nitpicking to call that out, besides entirely missing the point.

Also, it's actually the Pareto Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle) not "Pareto's Law" but that's also nitpicking.

Snapcast - https://mjaggard.github.io/snapcast/

To make it even easier for friends and family, I set up a dynamic DNS with a friendly URL like myjukebox.duckdns.org that points to the 192.168.xxx.xxx address where this is hosted.

Mopidy (https://mopidy.com/) as the MPD server with Iris (https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/) as the client is a good setup for this.

Even the tech-illiterate can get along with it.

Really a lot of it boils down to if this else that, and little more.

> because we can, because before we started we couldn't, learning is fun

That last line about learning has the right spirit!

> It isn't as if you can sell every hour of your time whenever you feel like it.

Yes, but a public good has costs whether or not you want to acknowledge them.