The clause covers all methods of artificial traffic generation under a single strict prohibition, and the non-exhaustive list signals that novel methods are also prohibited.
Artificial traffic generation of any kind — including automated tools — is prohibited, meaning any detected manipulation of clicks, impressions, or Sessions could constitute a program violation.
Create artificial or deceptive political movements in which the source, scale or nature of the campaign or activities is misrepresented
Apple
· Apple App Store Review Guidelines
Artificially increasing the number of impressions or click-throughs of ads, as well as apps that are designed predominantly for the display of ads.
you cannot cause any page of an Amazon Site to open in a customer's browser other than as a result of the customer clicking on a Special Link on your Site.
(b) in violation of the AUP
Box
· Box Terms of Service
(d) use any automated process or service (such as a bot, a spider, or periodic caching of information stored by Box) to access or use the Services...
Okta
· Okta Terms of Service
Access or attempt to access or use the Site, or any portion thereof, through any automated means, including but not limited to the use of scripts or web crawlers
DeepL
· DeepL Terms and Conditions
Customer shall not be allowed to access and control DeepL Translator Pro or any associated Add-Ons through automated procedures which may cause an increased number (exceeding usual human behaviour) of requests to DeepL Translator Pro or the associated Add-Ons.
Stash
· Stash Terms of Use
uses or launches any automated system, including "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," to access any Content or our systems or to "data mine" or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure...
DeepL
· DeepL Terms and Conditions
Customer shall not be allowed to access and control DeepL Voice for Meetings through automated procedures which may cause an increased number (exceeding usual human behaviour) of requests to DeepL Voice for Meetings.
access the Service using any automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers) except (a) in the case of public search engines, in accordance with YouTube's robots.txt file; or (b) with YouTube's prior written permission
GitHub
· GitHub Acceptable Use Policies
automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity, such as spamming cryptocurrency mining
Generate automated communications to public officials or voters at scale that conceal their artificial origin, or engage in systematic vote solicitation that could undermine election integrity
Chegg
· Chegg Terms of Use
You agree not to view, copy, screenshot, or procure content or information from the Services by automated means (such as scripts, bots, spiders, crawlers, or scrapers)...unless formally authorized by Chegg under a separate written agreement.
You will not use, access, or collect content, data, information, or materials published or available on the Services...using automated means unless DoorDash has given you prior permission to do so in writing.
We prohibit crawling, scraping, caching or otherwise accessing any content on the Service via automated means (except as may be the result of standard search engine protocols...with our express consent).
Eufy
· Eufy Terms of Service
conduct any systematic or automated data collection on or in relation to Anker's Services—including scraping, data mining, data extraction, data harvesting, or automated bulk purchasing—without our express prior written consent
use any automated tools or systems to extract, collect, or analyze data or content from the Products or Services for any purpose, including training machine learning models or large language models (LLMs) without the express written consent of Headspace
Acorns
· Acorns Terms of Service
use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, "data mine" or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site, Application or Services...
Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below).
you may not use any robots, spiders, crawlers, devices, scripts, or other data gathering or extraction software and/or tools, whether automated or manual, to access, acquire, copy, monitor, scrape, data mine, or aggregate any Content...
Use any robot, spider, scraper, off-line reader, data mining tool... that sends more request messages to the servers running the Service than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time...
Unity
· Unity Terms of Service
Use automated means (including "web crawlers," bots, robots, spiders, scrapers or other types of software or hardware technology) to collect content or information, download materials automatically or otherwise access any Offering
Create automated tools designed to compromise multiple systems at scale for malicious purposes
Except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, you shall not use any automated computer programs or software to download resumes/CV or to extract Data...and shall not resell or sub-license access to the Resume Database...
use any robot, spider, scraper, off-line reader, data mining tool, data gathering or extraction tool, or any other automated means to access the Service in a manner that sends more request messages...than a human can reasonably produce
use software or automated agents or scripts to produce multiple accounts on the Site, or to generate automated searches, requests, or queries to (or to strip, scrape, or mine data from) the Site...
This prohibition covers a broad range of automated data-collection techniques, meaning any programmatic access aimed at extracting information from the Services is forbidden.
use any robot, bot, scraper, site search/retrieval application, proxy, VPN or other manual or automatic device, method, system or process to access, retrieve, index, "data mine"...