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Originally Posted by Mark-G
Google is very anti-adult these days - I cannot get them approve any ads with ladies in bikini's or just giving "sexy smiles" or winking (no nudes).
When you try to explain to them your side of the story - you will hit a "robot rep" and he/she will be keep saying that "they have changed their ToS" and no longer accept ANYTHING even remotely "sexy" (forget about nude or hardcore).
I guess we need to look for other marketing channels - Google and Adult is no go for while now.... It's official!
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Though I agree with you to an extent but the fact of the matter is that Google is giving a lot of BS lately. I have sites where adsense has been disabled just because the girl looked hot or was wearing a bikini in perhaps 1 image in the whole site (not nude or see through even or even a sexy bikini.. just lame normal bikinis). They have given me the BS about not following their TOS etc.
But when I check their ads which they are running here in India (I am from India) then I see nearly lingerie, bikini, gambling and other such ads in nearly 40-50% of all image ads. Even in Youtube India, the thumbnails they place on the homepage contain a lot of suggestive ones with even old videos of scandals, suggestive scenes from movies, bathing thumbnails etc. India is somewhat of a conservative country but the youtube thumbnails and ads they run here are all targeted at adult audiences.
You can check for yourself by going to any site using some Indian proxy. Or just change the country to India at the bottom of Youtube screen from a fresh (cache cookies deleted) browser to check their hypocrisy.
Google has been running one set of rules for webmasters and a different set for themselves from what I have seen.
