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I would stay clear from anything that manipulates adsense code.

Google suspended my adsense account for a technique which Google approved / suggested in their support forums.

I would just stay clear of AdSense, period. Not that I have much of a choice ever since they randomly decided I was committing click-fraud (I wasn't) a few years back and banned me.

I had the exact same situation, click-fraud out of the blue. You can find many such cases reported. I strongly believe that AdSense for small, powerless publishers is a scam. Google can do whatever it likes with your ad space and cut you off whenever.

Same, a few years back I had a website getting 1M+ pageviews per month and making me substantial income for me to consider dropping out of secondary school and then out of nowhere, no warnings, I got banned for click fraud. Dodged a bullet, never ever using Adsense again.

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