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My project has been having fake ads bought on Google to serve malware for a year now and Google doesn't seem to care. At best they might take down one ad, but there are always more.

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They are making money off of it, that's a pretty strong incentive not to care.

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

If you're in the US[1] you can trademark your project name, and then Google will pay attention. Of course getting a trademark isn't that easy either so the solution may be worse than the problem.

[1] Back when I worked in the business this was only possible in the US, for legal reasons I didn't fully understand.

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