And yes, Google cooperated in this specific case, but only after the problem got really bad. It's really hard to take a charitable view when Google, a large player in the ads space, and a company known for technical excellence, allows stuff like this to happen:
> An agency or advertiser looking to place an ad would only see the name of TBS.com in the ad exchange and not know they were buying ad space on a counterfeit site. Then the bots would visit the fake site and view the ad to generate revenue. (This technique of masquerading as a legitimate publisher is called domain spoofing. It’s a long-running issue, though a new standard called ads.txt [1] is helping curb it.)
This article (https://digiday.com/media/ft-warns-advertisers-discovering-h...) is a year and a half old. Google obviously had the resources to discover this years ago and failed to do so.