i'd cry if someone wouldn't let me scam them too

Published Thursday, March 20, 2008 by geo | E-mail this post

I don't know if any of you have been following zibri and the iPhone hacking scene the past while. Basically this guy named zibri used an exploit a someone found and created an application that cracks iPhones and iPod Touches and unlocks the phone for use on any network. Super awesome. It's so much more reliable than the old methods and bloody easy too.

Today zibri got pissed off because google decided to suspend his adsense account. He amassed $4000 worth of clicks by persuading visitors to his page to click on his adsense ads. Something to the effect "once I get a third of all visitors to click on an ad, I'll be able to continue development."

In plain English it is spelled out in the adsense ToS:

... publishers may not request that users click the ads ... publishers participating in the AdSense program ... may not encourage users to click the Google ads by using phrases such as "click the ads," "support us," "visit these links," or other similar language

In other words he was trying to scam advertisers out of $4000, and now he's crying like a baby because they won't give it to him.

After all it's all about money.
ADSENSE robbed all the money in the adsense account
gained in ONE MONTH of advertising on this site.
No reason given.
No explainations.
No nothing.
$4000 in advertising (thanks to YOUR support)
just vanished.
Well, I don't really care so much about money
I am not even selling ZiPhone but I wanted you all
to know what's happening.
I'm disgusted.

I politely tried to point out his error, but for some reason he elected to delete my comment. :S