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> Google says "hey, unfortunately your site isn't appealing to advertisers."

1) Advertisers - plural? What other advertisers is Google referencing?

In this context, 'advertisers' means all the other meaningfully similar ad options that the author could choose from.

2) This wording: "The team has reviewed it but unfortunately your site isn’t ready to show ads at this time." is Google's clear and blatant refusal to extend their ad ~monopoly to his web page. A refusal that gets satisfied only after he loads his site up with useless, time wasting crap.

I'll grant the author did have a choice. The author could be denied access to Google's ad monopoly or he could crap up his web page.




Advertisers are the ones paying to have their ads shown. Google is not an advertiser in this context.


You are correct. And your observation is useful.

It helps clarify that Google is lying - by pretending advertisers actively desire webpages that are unreadably overloaded with pap.




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