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Shoemoney points out the new emails from our lovely friends at adcenter.

“You have 24 hours from receiving this mail to remove your ads. After 24 hours, your account will be suspended.”

Good lord.

Now Shoemoney, who’s quite the traveler these days, can’t get to his account in time to ‘improve’ the ads. I would venture to guess he’s not the only one, considering

It’s the middle of summer, it’s august, people travel in august! Hello, McFly?

Redmond, let’s use some common sense here. First and foremost you approved these ads. Secondly, if you decided you made a mistake, why not disable or pause said offending ads. Don’t disable the FREAKING account. What a ham-handed way to handle this problem.

I am sincerely pulling for Adcenter, because Google needs competition, the marketplace needs competition, to be truly healthy, and believe me they’re not getting it from Yahoo, formerly Overture, as in, formerly useful. This new stunt from the folks at Adcenter is really not going to help their case.

Now I may just getting a bit salty because it’s Monday, but hey, I wonder if no one had told me about this, and then my Adcenter account was disabled, would I have even noticed? I mean, more people walk on the moon than see my Adcenter ads, but that’s another can of worms.

Earth to AdCenter, come in.