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remove, modify, disable, block, obscure or otherwise impair any advertising in connection with the Services
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;
"bulk distribution of promotions and advertising prohibited by GitHub terms and policiesExcerpt from GitHub's Acceptable Use Policies
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The clause states: “bulk distribution of promotions and advertising prohibited by GitHub terms and policies”
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