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Google has 93% of searches in Europe and 88% in the US.

If such a company refuses their services to somebody who is compliant with every single of their publicly shared rule, it's an abuse of their power. And an anti-trust issue.

But I didn't offer to break them up. The real solution to this problem, I think, would be to create a transparent process for moderation. That is what the article is about.

Among other sites Microsoft serves ads on DuckDuckGo, so if you're a privacy enthusiast, you'll probably see the ad :)

The problem with this policy is that we're nowhere near cryptocurrency exchanges. Not at all.

We mentioned crypto because we allowed people to pay for our services using BTC or ETH, that is it! You're also allowed to pay using usual banking card.

Still, I submitted an appeal after we tore down this whole feature but no luck, still got banned after that.

Oh, yeah, thanks, but those should not be applied to us. Probably.

> For the purposes of this policy, we consider financial products and services to be those related to the management or investment of money and cryptocurrencies, including personalised advice

We don't do anything of this kind. We're basically an excel spreadsheet with your expenses, no "money" actually involved here.

If you're interested in this, please reach me out at [email protected]. I need some more information to move it up in the backlog, maybe you could help us with that?

Thanks!

Most of our competitors say they have "strong encryption", but when you read the page it actually means they have SSL. Or that they use SHA256 for hashing the passwords. That is… disappointing.

Thanks for your support across the thread. It is kind of difficult to oppose to a lot of people screaming "scam" into your face :)

> Nobody puts a history like

Yeah, a bunch of people here told me we have a huge problem with copy. Will rework it. Storytelling is not my feature, but I'll try my best :)

> it’s just me missing clear UI borders and color-cued sidebars and property sheets

Will think of a better way, thanks!

I am afraid this it what I will have to do. Small rebranding, new domain, fresh IP, new card, etc.

Still it's hard to understand this decision.

> Why isn't it possible to make a new ad if the first one was rejected ? I don't fully understand how it played out.

The whole account was banned, that's why. The ad actually passed the moderation and even had 200 impressions.

> Other marketing strategies should be used to bootstrap it and grow it's user base

It's pretty common for the new players to burn money on ads, because it's scalable and predictable. So it actually would be super difficult to run the app for a few years without any predictable traffic source.

Thanks for the support. It's hard to defend against all the people that keep screaming to my face that I'm the scam here.

> Google's financial services advertising page

Can you give me the link?

> It's also worth noting that the service seems to be offered from Russia

That is true. But Google is available in Russia and allows businesses to buy ads without any limits. I know a Russian service called raindrop.io (bookmark sync app) that buys ads in Google and runs a worldwide service, and they get no bans.

Author's here.

Yes, that is true and was the big red flag for me. I believe it would be in their best interest to exchange the data on potential fraudsters, because it would make their life simpler.