Google AdSense: You suck
Like a lot of Web publishers, I depend pretty heavily on AdSense to generate revenue and pay the bills. A good server isn't free. So imagine my horror when, on Thursday, the numbers dropped between 50 and 80%, depending on the site. Something is horribly wrong.
Nothing has changed at my end, so I'm working on the assumption that they changed something. I haven't yet figured out what. My suspicion is that it has something to do with the async code they switched to recently for DFP, but I can't be sure. Analytics and DFP show consistent numbers, and those are also Google products.
Here's what pisses me off the most though: I can't even contact them. I can make a post in their forums, which no one ever reads, and that's pretty much it. Unless you're in the top 1% of earners, humans are not available to answer your questions. I might be small, but I'd like to think after tens of thousands of dollars in revenue for them over the years, I'm at least entitled to a form e-mail.
I hate crap like this. Google, you suck.