Hello,
Here is a text we wrote to explain the situation and that piwik.js is not a malware:
Hello,
We are the creators of Matomo, the leading open source web analytics software used on 1 million websites, with privacy built-in.
One of our users has contacted us because Google has blocked their Google Ads campaign, claiming the “piwik.js” file is malware.
But this piwik.js is the JavaScript tracking client for Matomo Analytics.
The source code can be found here in its original form: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/blob/4.x-dev/js/piwik.js
> This file has been deployed on the internet on 1 million websites without any problem, and it does not have any malware.
It is used to record the web analytics information from the website into the website’s owner’s Matomo system.
You can find the developer documentation at: https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide
The piwik.js file is similar to the Google Analytics tracking file at: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/how-analyticsjs-worksYou can manually verify whether the piwik.js flagged as malware is different from our standard packaged (minified) piwik.js by comparing the file to the original (latest version) here: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/blob/4.x-dev/js/piwik.min.js
This has happened before where Googe mistakenly flagged us as malware for no good reason.
→ Could you please immediately revert the malware claim on the piwik.js
and if you have otherwise any question or feedback about the file, please let us know?Looking forward to hearing from you,
Matomo Team
You can reach out to the Matomo team at https://matomo.org/contact/
Could you share this text with them and let us know if that helps unblock the situation?
Thanks,