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Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;
Discriminate regarding access to communities or groups that you create, manage, lead, or participate in.
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...)
"Circumvent technical restrictions, access controls, rate limits, challenges, security features, or compliance controls such as age-verification, identity-verification, or geographic restrictions.Excerpt from Instacart's Terms of Service (Superseded Capture)
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The clause states: “Circumvent technical restrictions, access controls, rate limits, challenges, security features, or compliance controls such as age-verification, identity-verification, or geographic restrictions.”
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