Google makes ungodly amounts of money off scams. One of the main Videolan project devs told me recently that their update tool stats show that 15% of all VLC b

Google makes ungodly amounts of money off scams. One of the main Videolan project devs told me recently that their update tool stats show that 15% of all VLC builds downloaded are from scam sites--sites that charge money for VLC or include spyware in the installation, and promote themselves using Google Ads. Google refuses to stop serving ads on the keyword and it's impossible to go after the sites legally (they're all based in Russia or whatnot, whack-a-mole and all that). Now consider the fact that there were 80 million VLC downloads in the period after the 1.0 release. And OpenOffice apparently has the problem even worse. It's really quite sickening the way that AdSense profits off these sorts of scams.