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Merchants canremove a linkat any time by visiting thePartnerstab
in Google Merchant Center. Partners can remove links programmatically using theremoveaction of theaccounts.linkmethod. Once a link is removed, it no longer exists and must be re-requested
and re-approved again.
Just asapproveactions can selectively choose whichservicesto
make active, aremoveaction can also act on a subset of theserviceslist.
Example
Continuing the example from the previous sections, a merchant account98765can remove the link to partner123456789by sending a request specifying"action": "remove".
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