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It is surprising that they apparently haven't added a more strict check when an extension claims to be from a known company.

I would have thought they would have a list of names like "Microsoft", "Facebook" etc. that would trigger a more thorough check. In this case it should be clear that they tried to pose as Microsoft, and it is coming from an account that has no association with Microsoft.

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You'd think they'd have a vetting process on their ads as well, but they don't. Not a good one at least.

Either Google doesn't care, or they aren't able to do any form of sensible checking of stuff uploaded to they various platforms. Well, either that or they don't see it as a massive issue.

They don’t care. A company that can soft-censor (by placing specific warning messages) videos about a virus a few weeks after it became a hot topic in the West could easily detect big corpo brand appropriation if they wanted.

Either Google doesn't care < this one IMO

Caring removes money from them, at least in add case, so better to shift the bullshit to their "users", who are really the product being sold to advertisers, so who cares. Customer is always right, its just we are not the customer.

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