When I was in college I ran a forum that got some decent traffic. I put Google Ads on my site and after a few months had enough money to pay for school books. I went to cash out and they suspended my account claiming click fraud and stole the money.
This is how google has always operated, and it's one of the reasons why their near monopoly on advertising is horrible for everyone.
This is how google has always operated, and it's one of the reasons why their near monopoly on advertising is horrible for everyone.