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This prohibition protects the integrity of engagement data that advertisers and creators rely on to make business and content decisions.
Users are prohibited from taking any action, including financial incentives, that would produce inaccurate measurements of genuine engagement on the Service.
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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;
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"cause or encourage any inaccurate measurements of genuine user engagement with the Service, including by paying people or providing them with incentives to increase a video's views, likes, or dislikes...Excerpt from YouTube Ads's YouTube Terms of Service
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This prohibition protects the integrity of engagement data that advertisers and creators rely on to make business and content decisions.
Users are prohibited from taking any action, including financial incentives, that would produce inaccurate measurements of genuine engagement on the Service.
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