Service Abuse

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Updated on 2024-04-16
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Definition

Use of a network, product or service in a way that violates the provider’s terms of service, community guidelines, or other rules, generally because it creates or increases the risk of harm to a person or group or tends to undermine the purpose, function or quality of the service.

This may include distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, spamming, non-consensual data scraping, bot activity.

Network and service abuse is generally covered by your Terms of Service.

Discussion

Discuss this label in the Service Abuse forum.

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