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I see a lot of faucets are violating adsense TOS so have reported a few. Mostly encouraging clicks. Most of the top faucets are violating adsense TOS on the faucetbox list. Will I get a reward by any chance? I heard a while ago that they do but that was quite a few years back. You can report here if you want to help. https://support.google.com/adsense/troubleshooter/1190500 (https://support.google.com/adsense/troubleshooter/1190500)


*EDIT - I dont understand why some of you are supporting violating adsense TOS. If you run a faucet and want to continue to earn from adsense, then it makes sense to report these otherwise they will ban traffic from faucets! To be honest I knew google didn't reward, I just wanted people to comment and inspire others to report.
Any faucet owner who wants to continue to earn from adsense should report faucets violating TOS to keep faucet traffic reputable. Don't support scammers.

I don't think that google will reward you with anything.
Mostly they will say "Thank you" and nothing more.
I think that they will reward (like Facebook) if there is any bug in their system or in their automated bots to identify these faucets.

Trying to ruin someone's business (which helps others get started making Bitcoin) just for the chance of a reward from Google is a dick move.
Either way, you won't get a reward. They would likely just remove the site and give the same stock 'Thanks for reporting' email to you. If you consider this a good enough reward for ruining a website, go for it.

No They won't pay you, even a cent. Just make sure you report the correct once since some have 2 adsense accounts for their website and they could use many adsense ads on their website ( Happened before ) aside from those, any faucet owner that asks for clicks will either end up getting their adsense accounts banned by their staff or by reports of the community itself.

for honest faucet owners it should be a daily routine to report those faucets to adsense.

healthy competition ;D

Firstly, why do u want to ruin a business that are giving money free? daamm , if u don`t want to click adsense ads get your ass away.
Secondly, I understand that are MANY that are fuking with pop-ads pop-up pop-under and pop fukng xD with 20 adsense ads, this owners are abusing worth a adsense ban, but the owners that have a fukng antibot system near to adsense ads (near not under) doesnt deserve a ban, my opinion

Somewhere there’s a village missing its idiot...

google you will not give any rewards for report adsense violating. I would not even get a thank you.
maybe it's better than just skip this faucets, and to not visit will more.
if google earn on some faucet 1000$ or more, do you think that will be banned because is someone do not like it? i don't thik so

No reward, and don't waste your time :)


Those faucets need some money to survive too. If you are using faucet, then let it be...

It is not Google that suffers the loss for fake clicks but advertisers who pay to get targeted visitors.Just for once,all those who are oppossing the idea of reporting such faucets or website,put yourself in those advertisers shoes and tell me if they wouldn't mind getting fake clicks for the money they spent on advertising? Some other time these faucets owners themselves might want to advertise their faucet,would they then not want fake clicks to be reported? What is wrong is wrong whether a small faucet owners do it or big websites

Fully agrred.

This is a bad movie and you won't be rewarded.


I'm a honest faucet owner. My faucet respect all the Adsense rules. Anyways I'm not spending my time trying to ruin the other faucet owners business.

I prefer to invest my efforts in make my faucet better than their ones.

reporting just speed up the process, adsense has statistics to determine any violating behaviour. When couple of my websites went down i got message from adsense that my earnings are out of predicted statistics, so sooner or later those faucets will get banned

And probably they wont earn anything before the ban since adsense doesnt pay immediatly but something like after 1-2 months and all clicks and earnings are also checked at the end of each month(used it years ago...dont know if something changed in the last years xD).

that's true, the final balance is checked before pay-out, all earning are estimated during the month period

No more, no less.

The free market, trust and experience verify everything. Fair play always in the long run proves superior.

Good luck with your projects!

Obviously, OP just trying to trolling around. Unfortunately, this could give ideas to people with bad intentions.
I really don't see the point of ruining somebody's work by reporting the faucet to Google, it doesn't make sense to me.

If a faucet is forcing or tricking people to click ads, they're harming the advertiser.

The advertisers pay the bills, I think people would be wise to avoid ripping them off.

Agreed on this one. If an advertiser pays, they want results, which is understandable. When I see a faucet who literally beg for users to click ads, I avoid using it because it is clear that the guy behind it don't know how Adsense works and the faucet will disappear once he figured that he's got banned from Adsense.

But for legit faucets, getting reported to google just because some people want to ruin it can also make harm, especially for long running faucets.

I dont understand why some of you are supporting violating adense TOS. If you run a faucet and want to continue to earn from adsense, then it makes sense to report these otherwise they will ban traffic from faucets! To be honest I knew google didn't reward, I just wanted people to comment and inspire others to report.
Any faucet owner who wants to continue to earn from adsense should report faucets violating TOS to keep faucet traffic reputable.

I don't care because if they force people to click then they probably will have a high click rate and google will check them before confirming high earnings.

well, i agree that is not ok cheating and violating adsense TOS, but if  we report each other i guess that is google may decide on which all of the faucet is violates rules of adsense TOS
i think that is need other way for prevention of such faucets

No you will get nothing.

Its almost comical going out of your way to report a business that is making peanuts but more than that helping new comers to bitcoin earn some dust and learn how it works. For the record google are far from stupid and they know what is going on, does it look like they care? lol

I have some advice, get a job and get rewarded.

sorry they wont reward you but you get a "thank you" from them for reporting Adsense TOS violators...

I think all faucet with antybot link, can are banned from adsense, because have all text link too near at banner, and is only a method for have more click.

i'm sure adsense see when one site have more report for violation or already if you click to "the ads cover the page"

Google have employees who are paid to check these violations, there is no need for you to do their job for them, they get the reward... you get a thank you email.

Most of these faucets do not survive the first cut anyways.. so it's not a big loss. You break the rules and you get banned. The people who stay within the rules should not be

put in the spotlight, because you are looking for a little reward. Come... give them a break... it's normally the startups that are doing that anyways.  :(

statistics is very simple science, i am sure that he google knows. if mostly all visitors click on banners, that is suspiciously

Of course they must know that. They make billions every year. They will never let sh*t in this mine of gold.. If someone breaks the rules, sooner or later will be banned. Mostly before the first payment. ;)

I dont understand why some of you are supporting violating adsense TOS. If you run a faucet and want to continue to earn from adsense, then it makes sense to report these otherwise they will ban traffic from faucets! To be honest I knew google didn't reward, I just wanted people to comment and inspire others to report.
Any faucet owner who wants to continue to earn from adsense should report faucets violating TOS to keep faucet traffic reputable. Don't support scammers! who will make us all look bad.

Nobody support scummers. Like i said Adsense will very fast ban them! They have good tools..

Someone could make a mistake and AdSense can give him a chance to fix it. At the beginning I posted 5 ads instead of 3 .. I thought that since it allows AdSense, so I can .. Later I read everything better and I changed that.

Yes... I agree.

First I did some wrong moves like to incentivating missleading clicks. After reading better the rules I fixed it.

Today I don't use ads into popups or more than ads. I don't let my ads together with action buttons or interaction areas. This could generate unnatural attention to the ad.

My faucet respect all the adsense rules. Take a look: http://bitcoin-catcher.com/faucet

is meant a faucets with "antibot" button perched in the ads

I report all faucets I see with those antibot click things almost on top adsense banners. It's nice clicking refresh and seeing empty spaces where the adsense banners were.

I hardly use faucets ever so I don't see too many. That's just a dirty tactic to get clicks.

It already costs enough to advertise with google without getting blind wasted clicks. You won't understand until you've spent the money to pay for real advertising with them. If you can't afford to run a faucet, than don't run one.

I agree with reporting the faucets that have various methods to force people to click their ads. It's an unfair game for us, those who play it safe. I'm curious how they don't get their faucets banned...

Faucets are giving money for free and u pretend to be banned? what a bussines

I agree to report faucets which makes really dirty game.. like for example popups which porn stuff.. OK, "anti-bot" buttons under advert are dirty too, but please dont be paranoic with that - Everyone can make mistake and if AdSense is banning someone it is really finish of the game. Dont forget that faucets are to support Cryptos.. Do not judge too harshly!

Just saying ;)

More clearly please. Atm i dont use any "anti-bot" system, but im already loosing a lot because of bots. Maybe only "this" system can help to stop this bot campaign. In other way will win only scammers.. Any advice?

Me too running faucet without earnings from AdSense but I never violated tos of AdSense. 

My past 7 days earning $0.86 after I increased reward.

But at start when reward was only 100 saotoshi for 30 minutes  daily revenue was approx $0.5 .

Visitors are same in both case but earnings are not same can't understand this behavior of visitors.  :(

It depends from few things.. I think that the most important are location and time spended on website. But for sure there is more..

100 satoshi is not interested for most of users, especially users from country where is highest payeed per click.
with low reawards, you target visitors from country with cheapest pay per click.

With 100 satoshi reward I was getting better clicks from visitors and 50% from us but after increase of reward up to 500 no click.

I just want to throw this out there... The ones here that have a problem with people reporting sites that violate Google's Adsense policy are the same mother fuckers that will keep the money out of a wallet that they found on the ground because... well, they found it, so it's theirs now!

The more faucets there are that violate Google's terms, the more likely it is that Google will ban Adsense from Bitcoin faucets in the future. And the more that sites like these stick around, the more other admins will copy those same tactics. Perfect case in point? The stupid "anti-bot" links.

The dishonest faucet admins and the ones that get pissed about people reporting them are the ones that should be shamed.

all of the faucet which i develop it is without anti bot links. for me it's very hard and boring to found this button, and click on link below ads. i understand you and other people for frustration with this faucets.
Unfortunately it's too much malicious script, bots, proxy and other unwanted actions on faucet, that simply imposes to putt thing like antibot on page
it certainly does not justify faucet owner for hiden button and anti bot links

bluesatoshi.com (http://bluesatoshi.com) is the worst! You actually have to click an add to claim. They have been live nearly 2 months now and google has not stopped them. I guess they have made $1k+ from ripping off advertisers. I know if I was an advertiser I would be pissed at that!

I would imagine and hope that Google would have some kind of process in place that would periodically quality check to see if tbeir TOS  are being violated, it's entirely down to the individual if you want to report it feel free.

There are no ads to click for the claim....after the claim they suggest to support but it's up to you.

I think google can ban bluesatoshi because they say "click on ads" and this break mostly the terms.

That for sure :)

I've reported them a while ago and a few others to no avail...perhaps just a backlog. Faucetbox is pretty bad at letting them stay in the list.

Bluesatoshi is ordered by votes in the list i think

Faucetbox doesn't care what you're doing on your faucet site, and users like it because there are no annoying ads, no popups and the claim is easy.

There are 2 other similar faucets with the same script that are a bit tricky for the claim since there are more claim buttons and only one work while other two open ads so maybe you confused bluesatoshi with those two because like i said before for users there are no issues around bluesatoshi.com.

Also "Meanwhile you can review our sponsor" i don't think it's bannable for google since none force you to click on ads and sponsors can be also other faucets that they are sponsoring through adbit.

Not only these faucets are wrong but all the faucets with "I'm no bot" or red or yellow dots are based on the trick that you mis-click the dot or no bot and open the underlying ad. That is also on the edge, i think.

I'm talking about bluesatoshi and not about all other faucets with tricky claims.

Ah Blue satohi why does it have a ref link in it? even when you get it from Faucet box list its the same, I changed the ref link to my own and then bookmarked it  ;D

And as for greensatoshi.com I have never made a claim from it.

<div id="openModal" class="modalDialog"> blocks the claim button even when removing it.
      
         
      

Greensatoshi is one of the other faucets that use the same script that i mentioned before....they have more than one "claim button" and the real one appears where you see the counter.
https://i.imgur.com/o5cgfES.png?2

About bluesatoshi i have to say that i didn't notice the thing about the ref link since i have it already bookmarked with a different one but it's something that doesn't have anything in common with adsense :D

Thanks for that lelouch90  I always tried the one on the right side 1500 satoshi
Why the trick I wonder.

You know the answer....probably people think that to get the reward they have to click on the thing that appears or at least that's what i did the first time before i noticed the counter.

Now I know what to do thank to you I will visit there more often.
Are you any good at editing scripts if so pm me.
I shall give you all the details tomorrow when I have the time, if not thats ok just leave the PM

Is any faucet or AdSense account has been blocked through your reports?

Wtf is this? thats not my ref.. If you quote me you will see no ref link in there. I guess bluesatoshi admin redirects to his own aff link so he doesnt have to pay out aff commission.

Well looks like bluesatoshi and theearner and other paid to click google ads are still standing.