I was using all three networks Adsense, Infolinks and Kontera and never thought that they might be against the TOs. Because once I'd read somewhere that Google allows other Ads if viewers are not confused those Ads with Adsense Ads.

I'm pulling back the Infolinks and Kontera ads from my sites.

Thank you once again.

Now from a technical standpoint Kontera ads could easily be made Google-compatible, if they followed the practice used by say Chitika. Chitika eMinimalls are, by default, contextual. But the publisher can instead substitute keywords manually, doing away with Chitika's contextual feature (and often getting a better ads to show). Kontera, however, seems to not offer a feature like this. I'd be much more inclined to use Kontera if I could pick the keywords I wanted Kontera to us rather than just give it carte' blanc to drop links all over my pages.

I'm not planning on trying Kontera any time soon … because of their annoying popup nature, confusing underling which will make readers annoyed, thinking they are going to a link I provided, and their somewhat bloated code … but the idea that they, _Kontera_ would tell advertisers that it was alright to use their ads and violate Google's ToS amazes me.

Kontera has no right to speak for Google, Google has no right to speak for Kontera … a honest answer would be, "Talk to Google regarding Google's terms of service", not passing out what might be incorrect info. I'd be very wary of Kontera's truthfulness based on what they seem to be putting out … they could have big time legal liabilities with this apparent carelessness.

As far as example sites using both advertising media together? This only proves some sites are doing it. It does prove anything as far as legalities. There are thousands of potential violations of Google's ToS on line every day … we've all seen them … the fact that something is done doesn't mean it's right or legal.

Anyway … an interesting discussion.

Could you respond back to Adsense's email and show them these two URLs?