Google AdSense..... Issues in life......

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Google..... It's a love hate relationship.... Love Google services, the hoops you have to jump through drive me CRAZY though.....

I've had my YouTube channel since before Google owned YouTube, and long before the attempted and failed Google+ integration. (which is what I THINK fucked me up, but more on that later...) So skipping ahead TO the G+ integration, Google kept trying to get me to consolidate my channel with my Google account..... I didn't want to do that! I wanted to keep my channel name as it was, because of this Google would pop-up question why over and over, I finally just checked one of their bogus boxes and said it was a business. I think that's what at the root of my issue here,

Starting to get REAL tired of this, but I don't want to start another channel and have to start over....

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