I agree with jamie3000.
Seriously you guys are trying to take money away from non profits and charities.... WTF? There is a difference between Black Hat and being scammer. One take's advantage of inefficiencies in a system, the other directly harms others. It's an important ethical and moral difference.
Nobody is stealing anything for charities you got this all wrong..
Think of Google as an ice cream truck which have an endless supply of a special unique flavored icecream and are giving away free icecream only to people from USA.
Now you have one problem , you are not from the USA and you badly want to taste that unique flavored icecream !
So what if you make a fake id and cheat the system and get some free icecream ?
That surly doesn't means that there wont be any icecream left for all the other people.. Especially when they produce that icecream from thin air.
And since you are a moral and systematic person ( referring to this : One take's advantage of inefficiencies in a system, the other directly harms others. ) can you explain me this :
How come google main registered money laundering offices and cash-flow is mostly registered with countries that have the smallest tax paying systems like Mexico ?
Doesn't that breaks the system and bleed out an unimaginable sum of money that should have gone to social cases / homeless or charities ? Is that morally correct ?
Or why are all the "free apps" that google gives you to use are designed to collect every bit of information they possible can about you ?
Every search you make, every word you type, every place you visit even your browsing history !
Than they filter this information and use it to build a profile about you and sell it to the highest bidder without you even knowing it.. Is that also morally correct ?
Is it moral and ethical to shave off publishers and wait to ban them a day before the payout is made without providing any reason and just because they felt like so ?
My point is why should you play fair with a company that invented unfair play to begin with ?
With a company that has its slogan "Dont be evil" and yet has crushed so many small companies in their way and continue to do so until this day with their monopoly over many industry`s.
I can write you up countless of cases where google has done damage to businesses using their influence and monopoly over the search industry. Favoring some companies more than other or forcing small companies to pay for ads.
Isint that "
taking advantage of inefficiencies in a system" ?
And dont get confused, like i said before, you don`t take away anything from the charities, you are just cheating the system to get some very tasty free icecream and Google is the one that has the endless supply.
If it was another case than maybe, but if you ask me if its morally wrong to hit google by its pocket a little, the company that currently has more cash on hand than US, than i would say NO, its just fine..
Even double up and expand if possible !
Cheers..