I just fell out of love with Google. It hurts a little (j/k), and I’m kind of surprised.
Adsense logins are distinct from Google/gmail logins — at least, they were. Google has recently decided that you need to make your adsense login officially a “real” Google account. Okay — I’m all right with that.
However, there system refused (refused) to let me map my existing gmail/google account to my adsense account. It simply denied me; it had some vaguely unhelpful error about this already being mapped, which doesn’t make a lot of sense — why ask me to “upgrade” to a Google account if I’m already mapped to Google account?
I just created an entirely new, extraneous Google account, just for adsense. After 25 minutes of trial and error and wasting time.
I can’t think of one good reason I should be prohibited from using my normal Google account as my Adsense account. It’s truly bewildering.
It can only mean that Google is doing this because it somehow makes life more convenient for them, and apparently what is convenient for me (or any other user) is not one of their concerns.
Yes, I know this probably sounds a little like whining, but — come on. This makes absolutely no sense. I am honestly really annoyed by Google for the first time ever.
I guess whatever it was that made Google different… is gone.
