Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
The easiest way to identify a monopoly is to look at how badly a company can treat its customers and still get away with it. My company has a half dozen stories like this about Google in the last year alone.<p>Know what Google is doing to its AdSense partners on a massive scale? They wait until your site has just under the earnings when they have to write you a check, then they terminate your AdSense account for “policy violations”.<p>I’m taking about AdSense sites that have been running for years with very little traffic, accumulating a few pennies a day.<p>They suspended a client of ours who was spending $40k a month on Google Ads with a two word explanation of “policy violations”, and steadfastly refused to explain any reason why.  Our client was perfectly reputable, ran multi million dollar ad campaigns on television and radio, and was FDA approved.<p>When what Google has been getting away with finally comes to light... well, let’s hope it does come to light and they pay the consequences.