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Are there trademark infringement issues here, particular on Google's part? They are getting paid (probably a lot) to display this ad, and are explicitly allowing buyers to lie about their identity.

If I were eBay, I'd be getting my lawyers on this immediately. Every dollar getting paid to Google for this ad is a dollar out of my revenue, and a lost customer, and is illegal.




Second link is broken, and the first is about a different thing (triggering an ad based on a competitor's trademark).

Pretending to be a competitor clearly violates trademark law. But I somewhat suspect these fraudsters aren't that concerned with trademark law.



It looks like HN drops trailing periods at the end of links, which breaks this. Here's a working link (yay URL encodings).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone_Ltd._v._Google,_...


And eBay will be made responsible for damages. "I click on that ebay ad and then my computer was locked down and a hacker said I need to pay him to get my files back".




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