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I'm in the same boat. Do you happen to live in the Bay Area?

If I were you, I would keep "Exclusively at Stanford University". The more niche you can make your target market, the easier it is to market and gain traction. If I was a Stanford student, I would be way more likely to submit my email. This is how Facebook first got traction.

I understand that. My complaint isn't that they labeled it "violence". My complaint is that they did not give me an explanation and they refuse to clarify which photos constitute "violent" images. Basically, no response from them.

This, after I had been using them since the inception of Adsense with no problems. They even used me as a case study a few years ago where they sent Adsense employees to my house to watch me use the Adsense interface for usability purposes.

It just leaves a bad taste when they treat their "partners" this way. I just want to speak with someone who can clarify my situation, that's all.

Yeah, I agree, it's not a monopoly. But they do have the most advertisers, so the alternatives aren't as good (for now, at least).

yeah, sorry to hear that. The moral of the story: Try to avoid relying on one company as your main source of revenue, you never know what can happen.

I don't want to get into revenue figures, but yes, the site has a cult following and while not attracting high CPM rates, it was earning decent enough revenue.

Again, I'm not mad that they decided to turn the ads off - I can respect their decision if they feel it's not appropriate, but it's the fact that I didn't get any decent explanation on what I needed to change. It just feels very disrespectful after such a long and prosperous relationship.