Follow Google Publisher Policies

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Despite this site being live for over 4+ years, I have made lots of negative money on it. I have decided that I will not be applying for Adsense, but this is a good checklist for bringing on other sponsors.

Tasks that need to be completed before applying based on Google Publisher Polices:

• No illegal content
• No IP Abuse
• • No DMCA violations
• • No sale of counterfeit products
• No dangerous or derogatory content
• • No dumb discrimination
• • No harassment/bullying of individuals/groups
• • No threats of physical/mental harm
• • No extortion
• No animal cruelty
• No misrepresentative content
• • No misrepresentation/concealment of the author, publisher, purpose, or content
• • • Add authors to games/software #29
• • No false endorsement/affiliation
• No unreliable/harmful claims
• • No demonstrably false claims significantly undermining trust/participation in democratic/electoral process
• • No promotion of harmful health claims/major health crisis contradicting scientific consensus
• • No contradicting scientific consensus on climate change
• No Deceptive practices
• • No engagement baiting
• • No phishing
• • No misrepresenting/concealing identity when it's a social issue/public concern
• • No political content/matters of public concern to foreign countries other than one's own while misrepresenting one's own country of origin or other relevant details
• No manipulated media related to public concern
• No enabling dishonest behavior
• • No helping users mislead others
• • No promotion of hacking/cracking
• • No enabling/promoting a user to breach another's privacy w/o authorization (excluding parents->children & investigation services)
• No malicious or unwanted software
• • No malware
• • • Ensure compliance with Google's Unwanted Softare Policy #33
• No sexually explicit content
• • No graphic/textual sexual content
• • No underage or non-consensual sexual themes
• No compensated sexual acts
• No mail order brides
• No Adult themes in family content
• No CSAM
• All information submitted to ad systems is honest
• No ads interfering with content or user interactions
• • No placement of ads too close to clickable items
• • Ads do not severely interfere with content by things like overlaying content or pushing content off-display
• • No ads on their own page or forcing interaction with ads to continue
• Ads are only on publisher content excluding low-value content like notification pages
• Ads are not out of the context they're targeting
• There's more publisher content than ad
• Content is in a supported language
• Privacy disclosures
• • • Have and abide by a privacy policy #34
• No interfering with Google-related cookies (and general rule - no one else's)
• Identifying users
• • No use of device identifiers other than those that are user-resettable for advertising use (no user identifiers other than future cookie for account session
• • No sending Google (or anyone) personal information or permanent identifiers of a device
• • No using Google services to merge non-personally identifiable info with info that is personally identifiable
• • Compliance with the EU user consent policy (cookies related to things like sign-in info are exempt)
• • • Add consent block for YouTube embeds #35
• Use of device and location data
• • Disclosures for purposes for which data may be used (including sharing with partners)
• • Obtain express consent before collecting information
• • Data sent to Google must be encrypted or sent in an encrypted channel with disclosure (none)
• Standard Contractual Clauses
• • Partners use personal data consistent with consent provided in the first place
• • Partners must protect personal data at least equivalent to what's required under SCC
• Compliance with COPPA
• • Properly tag content for those <13yr (none)
• • No interest-based advertising for those <13yr (none)
• No ads on pages that don't follow the Webmaster Quality Guidelines
• No pages with Abusive Experiences
• Follow the Better Ads Standard
• No ads on domains where we're not authorized sellers of the inventory in ads.txt
• Compliance with sanctions