Adsense, AdBrite, and similar programs

when is it conflicting and whn is it not?

[Imaster]

In [webmasterworld.com...]

AdSenseAdvisor mentions that

Ads that are sold directly by the publisher are ok to display with AdSense, which would include AdBrite.

I am assuming that if AdBrite (or any other program) does not 'read the page' to determine what ad to show, then there is no conflict. Am I right in thinking so?

I am planning to add another program on my pages, for which I plan to keep a completely different design so that it doesn't resemble Adsense. Then I would be manually placing different topic codes on my different targetted pages, and the program would display ads, without reading the page, i.e non-contextual. Is this ok?

[jhood]

It shoudl be fine, but why don't you ask Google? It can't hurt.

/jh

[martinibuster]

There was a recent thread about it with AWA saying it's okay. It was started by asp4bunnies

[HughMungus]

I don't think anyone has ever put it this way, but, I don't think the term "contextual" is specific enough (since I can put ads that are contextual on a page manually and they would appear to conflict with the adsense TOS). I *think* the definition they're looking for is "no other ads on a page that are derived by automatic contextual analysis". This would allow adbrite, allow me to put up ads manually that are contextual, yet eliminate any other system that determines what ads should go on a page via an automated process.

It begs the question, though: what's Google afraid of (aside from ads that appear to be similar which can be worked around easily)?