I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior."

Nick Abe, who makes the puzzle game Dayzle, describes two encounters with Google. AdMob suspended the game's ad account for "self-clicking" after 255 ads and 15 clicks, with no explanation of which clicks and no appeal. Google's support confirmed that the missing close button on full-screen ads on some iOS devices was a known issue, with an internal bug number, and by Abe's count between 5 and 15 of the 15 clicks came from it. Then Google Ads reviewed Abe's evidence of a bot farm (33 of the 56 paid installs opened the app once and spent zero seconds on any screen) and found that the activity appeared "to fit a pattern of normal user behavior". The same company flagged Abe's clicks and missed the bots, and, as Abe puts it, "I'm honestly not sure how many real humans have read my emails so far."

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