I saw this on a site with Adsense ads. Isnt this against their TOS? One more thing, our sponsors and advertisers pay your tuition for this course in XXXX repairs; each of your clicks/purchases through XXXXXX let's them know you appreciate their support in keeping XXXXX online, up-to-date and free. Thanks to the support and loyalty of XXXXXX students and alumnus such as yourself, the past 10 years have been fun and gratifying. XXX
Google is protecting its advertisers so that the advertisers would not lose money for some meaningless clicks. Yes, definitely, that is against the TOS.
I thought so it surprised me when I saw it. Thought it was pretty bold of them to do that. There were many other sponsor type text links, but since I saw Adsense also I thought it may be against TOS.