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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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""arbitrage" or promoting destinations for the sole or primary purpose of showing ads— Excerpt from Google Ads's Google Ads 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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