Cheating and deceitful practices
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Cheating and deceitful practices
Ads may not promote products or services that are designed to enable people to engage in cheating or deceitful practices.
Overview
Advertisers can't run ads for products or services that promote cheating or deceitful practices.
Guidelines
Ads can't promote:
- Dishonest practices. This includes, but is not limited to, products and services that:
- Enable people to circumvent security systems, including software that encourages software, passwords or credentials hacking
- Facilitate the secretive viewing or recording of individuals, including spy cams, mobile phone trackers or other hidden surveillance equipment
- Deliberately disrupt communication or signal sharing, including jammer and descrambling devices that intercept the connection between a phone and mobile phone base station
- Alter a vehicle to deceive others, including number plate obfuscation, odometer tampering, radar detectors or traffic light changers
- Enable people to cheat on exams or drug tests
- Counterfeit documents. This includes, but is not limited to,
- Fake documents, including counterfeit educational degrees, passports, immigration papers or fake currency
- Information on how to forge documents or currency, including any links to informational websites
- Unauthorised streaming devices. This includes, but is not limited to, products or services that:
- Facilitate or encourage access to digital content in an unauthorised manner, including the sale or use of augmented set-top boxes
- Free reviews and giveaways. This includes, but is not limited to,
- Incentivising or soliciting for reviews in exchange for free products
Enforcement
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