A violation is a violation, period. Yeah maybe it sucks but it violates their terms, what do you expect? It's not going to be grandfathered in. No one does that because now you have exceptions to your terms of service. Likely it was a violation back in 2006 as well in which case there would obviously be no exceptions granted anyway.
It's not like Google had the website sitting in a queue to be checked for violations and it took a decade to get to it. They likely hadn't looked at it at all, didn't run an audit on it etc. Google is a big company, is it really that unreasonable that it may have taken a decade before finding the violation?
It's not like Google had the website sitting in a queue to be checked for violations and it took a decade to get to it. They likely hadn't looked at it at all, didn't run an audit on it etc. Google is a big company, is it really that unreasonable that it may have taken a decade before finding the violation?