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Products or Services that Facilitate Illegal, Fraudulent or Misleading Behavior

Principle: For the protection of our users, Reddit aims to ensure all ads are safe and free from abusive or predatory behavior.

Policy: Reddit prohibits products or services that facilitate illegal, fraudulent, or misleading behavior on or off the platform.

Examples of products or services that facilitate illegal, fraudulent or misleading behavior (non-exhaustive list):

  • Products or services used for hacking or obtaining unauthorized access into wire, electronic, or other networks
  • Products or services used to inauthentically inflate metrics, followers, clicks, impressions, traffic
  • Promotion of products that facilitate spam
  • Products or services used to produce inauthentic documents, certifications, credentials, or work product
  • Products or services that obscure the transparency of the blockchain
  • Products or services that assist in the evasion of law enforcement activities
  • Unlawful, unsubstantiated, or improbable financial products or services including get rich quick schemes, multi-level marketing, investment, or pyramid schemes 
  • Keygens, hacking, or cracking tools used to circumvent copyrighted or proprietary content
  • Cheating services related to paper writing, buying essays, test taking