Hey there, some more admob questions because I’m a bit spooked by something that happened yesterday lol.
So basically, I set up admob in my game and have been testing things out. When I load a video it is definitely in test mode, I’ve double and triple checked that. When I test my game on my phone, the ads that show up look like real ads, and I kind of stupidly just assumed that that was how they were supposed to be, like they were preset ads that looked real but actually weren’t. I’m now realizing that there are actually very obvious looking test ads and that’s, I assume, what I should have been getting lol.
So anyways, I got an email yesterday saying my google publisher account was completely disabled, meaning I was supposedly permanently banned from adsense, admob, etc. But it gets weird. the reason that was given for getting my account banned was that my content “promoted dishonest behaviour, taught people to hack”, etc. It’s a game where you literally grow flowers and go fishing.
So I sent an appeal to google, explaining that I wasn’t sure why it said my game promoted dishonest behaviour, and I said that the only thing I can think that I may have done wrong is accidentally looking at real ads thinking they were test ads. Just a bit ago i actually got my account reactivated because I “changed my content to be in line with Google’s policies.”
So, do test ads actually look like real ads or am I supposed to be getting the ones that say test? I had my ad unit ID in the event, am I supposed to not put that in order to get test ads? I’m honestly afraid to do anything else without getting more information lol. I’ve been googling and I just can’t find the info I need.
Sorry for this long winded post.