Question How AdMob self-clicking detection works? Got acc suspended for this.

Hi guys!

My AdSense account got suspended for 30 days because of "self-clicking" and now i can't use AdMob.
For testing purposes, i clicked on some ads without setting test ads (didn't know about it) so my mistake, i accept the suspension.

The thing is, i have three public games on Playstore, and two in internal testing. Since i have more than one game, i don't know which one is the culprit, since i have no info from Google.

I don't know if one of the two games in internal testing is the one that made my acc suspended. Also, if i download my own games from Playstore (in production) and click some ads, i'll be breaking the rules in the same way? I don't know how this "self-clicking" detected, and i already made contact with Google for an answer so i don't make the same mistake again. I just want to know if someone here has any experience with this and maybe can help me clarify.

Thanks!

 

Yes, you will be banned.

You MUST strictly follow their documentation, do this for all your published apps.

https://developers.google.com/admob/android/test-ads

 

I'll be setting test ads but any idea on how detection work? mac, ip, other?

 

That's not something Google wants anyone to know.

 

I was banned for "suspicious activity" last year. I had one app in the Play store using admob. I don't play it, haven't even updated it in years, it's just on auto pilot. Got an email last year saying there was suspicious activity, suspending my admob, and wanting to know what I was going to do to prevent it from happening again. The "suspicious" activity amounted to 10 cents. I told them I didn't know what had happened, but to be safe I removed the app from the app store. I got an email three days later saying I was permanently banned, and that this was unappealable. I still don't know what I did wrong, they said they couldn't tell me or somebody could use the info to exploit it... how do I tell them what I would do to prevent such a thing from occurring when I have no clue what happened? Oh well. Unity Ads it is.