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Artificial traffic generation of any kind — including automated tools — is prohibited, meaning any detected manipulation of clicks, impressions, or Sessions could constitute a program violation.
Amazon Associates prohibits associates from artificially inflating clicks, impressions, or Sessions by any method, including automated software or robots.
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You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;
Send content created in Mailchimp through another service.
"You will not artificially generate clicks or impressions on your Site or create Sessions on an Amazon Site, whether by way of a robot or software program or otherwise.Excerpt from Amazon Associates's Program Policies
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Artificial traffic generation of any kind — including automated tools — is prohibited, meaning any detected manipulation of clicks, impressions, or Sessions could constitute a program violation.
Amazon Associates prohibits associates from artificially inflating clicks, impressions, or Sessions by any method, including automated software or robots.
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