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Come on, in this case it’s pretty obvious, your website was not doing anything of value. Just a random middle man expecting to be paid for existing. Put your promo code on your website fine, but then wanting to advertise on it? That just seems like a dodgy thing to do.

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Why should Google have a monopoly on linking to information that others find useful?

OP here.

I think some people downvoted this question of mine, so I’ll try to clarify my thinking.

Google is paid by advertisers to refer people to their content.

I was paid Wolt credits by Wolt to refer people to their service.

It seems to me that providing people with a promo code that they find valuable, and that Wolt finds valuable is providing a similar kind of value as Google’s own advertisements, even if mine is minuscule, and even if I use Google to advertise it.

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