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This has been happening to a smaller project I am affiliated with for years. You can report it to Google - typically they ignore the reports. Occasionally they'll remove the offending ad, but they are just replaced with more ads the following day. I don't think it's preventable.


It is with a trademark lawsuit. You don't need to fight, you just need to file the lawsuit.


> a smaller project

Filing a lawsuit is not something within reach of most smaller projects.


As someone who is actually an operator on Rizon, I agree.


Does the abuse team always reply to abuse reports? I've had one open since the 5th with no activity and I'm unsure if it is just being ignored.


I have reported a large amount of phishing domains and never received a reply, they also never got taken down.


There is a backlog. Like I said, they're a very busy team and are quite thorough in their review. Feel free to ping @namecheap on Twitter with the ticket number and they may be able to help escalate, depending on the severity of the case.


This is a massive problem in my experience; even if I report the ads spreading malware to Google they don't ever take them down.


I graduated from this last year! It is definitely a lot of work, excellent value for the price.


Can you help me understand how many hours/week you spent on it and how many years it took you to complete it?


omscentral.com


That's excellent, thank you!


A certain twitch category I frequent has had streams advertising phishing websites (phishing game credentials) on it 24/7 for a few years and twitch has never done anything about it. I guess if it doesn't cause public outrage then it's fine.


Sounds like so called "trading" portals for skins in CS:GO ...


I tried using github pages with fastly, however it appears when a new site deployment is done, github does not invalidate the fastly cache, in addition to fastly independently caching resources on the site, which can cause broken site deployments for several minutes where it is using mixed cached resources from old and new deployments. I opened a ticket with github support, and they said it was expected behavior. It makes it partially unusable for me.


I experienced this as well, wonder if one could mitigate this with some site parameters though?


I have a small (2k+ stars) niche game-related project. The hardest part for me is saying "no". If someone proposes a change that I think is out of scope, or is not something I want to maintain (maybe the introduced complexity is greater than the benefit of the feature) I find it difficult to explain that in a way people understand. Often times people get offended by it and then become angry at me, and over time it becomes very draining.


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.


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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