• Sources: primary, discussion
  • Summary: Google Ads suspended the author's advertiser account after roughly $500 of spend, citing two reasons, malicious software and compromised site. He documents a full evidence package, Safe Browsing and VirusTotal clean, valid signing and notarization, and reviewed bundles, and repeated appeals were rejected without any statement of what was flagged, with one appeal cycle ending in a week-long block. He suspects the multiplexer's documented background PTY processes triggered the classifier, and the account was reinstated after the post reached Hacker News, still with no explanation.
  • Why it matters: Automated platform enforcement can block a signed and scanned developer tool with no appealable statement of cause.

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