A violation is a violation, period. Yeah maybe it sucks but it violates their terms, what do you expect? It&#x27;s not going to be grandfathered in. No one does that because now you have exceptions to your terms of service. Likely it was a violation back in 2006 as well in which case there would obviously be no exceptions granted anyway.<p>It&#x27;s not like Google had the website sitting in a queue to be checked for violations and it took a decade to get to it. They likely hadn&#x27;t looked at it at all, didn&#x27;t run an audit on it etc. Google is a big company, is it really that unreasonable that it may have taken a decade before finding the violation?