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Advertisers whose landing pages or destinations exist primarily to generate ad impressions rather than provide genuine content may have their ads rejected.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a fragment without full surrounding sentence context, which limits certainty about the precise scope of the prohibition and any associated enforcement language. The primary proposition — the arbitrage prohibition — is nonetheless clearly stated in the fragment.
Users are protected from being directed to destinations that exist solely or primarily to expose them to advertisements.
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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...)
You agree that Promotional Codes: (a) must be used in a lawful manner; (b) must be used for the intended audience and purpose; (c) may not be duplicated, sold or transferred in any manner...
""arbitrage" or promoting destinations for the sole or primary purpose of showing adsExcerpt from Google Ads's Advertising Policies Overview
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Advertisers whose landing pages or destinations exist primarily to generate ad impressions rather than provide genuine content may have their ads rejected.
Users are protected from being directed to destinations that exist solely or primarily to expose them to advertisements.
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