Unacceptable Content
As part of our commitment to provide the highest quality online experience, we may not accept ads containing or relating to certain products or services. These products or services include, but are not limited to, those covered in the policies listed below. Yahoo! reserves the right to reject or remove any ad at its discretion at any time.
| Adult/Sexual Content | Pedophilia or other non-consensual content. |
| Areas of Questionable Legality | Products or services of questionable legality. For example, Cuban cigars, Ephedra, falsely obtained passwords, pyramid schemes, non-FDA-approved HIV home test kits, etc. |
| Beating Drug Tests | Products that facilitate the evasion of drug laws, such as sites promoting ways to "beat" a drug test. |
| Bypassing Copyright Protection | Software that bypasses copyright protection. |
| Cable Descramblers | Products that descramble cable and satellite signals in order to get free cable services. |
| Cigarettes and Tobacco | Cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco and other tobacco products. |
| Counterfeit Products and Replica Designer Goods | Counterfeit, fake or bootleg products, or replicas or imitations of designer products. |
| Data Collection | Sites whose primary purpose is the collection of personally identifiable information to be used for consumer or promotional marketing, or related purposes. Pages that link to or redirect to such sites. |
| Defamatory, Libelous, Threatening | Defamatory, libelous or threatening sites. If the discussion contains racial or religious epithets, advocates doing physical harm to people or their property, or if it is unquestionably false on its face, we may decline such sites. We may also decline sites that advocate against any individual or group. |
| Drugs | Illegal substances, substances of questionable legality or substances whose primary purpose seems to be recreational mind alteration. |
| Drug Paraphernalia | Drug paraphernalia, such as bongs, hookahs and herbal vaporizers. |
| Essay Writing Services | Academic paper-writing services and the sale of pre-written essays, theses and dissertations. |
| Fake IDs and Fake Diplomas | Fake IDs, fake diplomas or education transcripts. |
| Firearms, Ammunition and Fireworks | Fireworks, firearms, or integral parts for these weapons. |
| Online Gambling |
Online gambling sites. Among such sites are those that accept wagers or require payment in exchange for the chance to win prizes, as well as sites that offer both information and links related primarily to the promotion of online gambling. If it comes to our attention that a site is soliciting users to participate in online gambling (including, without limitation, through email correspondence with users), we will terminate that site's listing. |
| Paid to Read/Click Sites | Offers to compensate users for clicking on ads or offers, performing Web searches, viewing Web sites or reading e-mails, etc. |
| Peer-to-Peer | Access to peer-to-peer file sharing networks. |
| Prostitution | Ads, sites or keywords that suggest the availability of prostitution services. |
| Suffering and Violence |
Sites that advocate, glorify or promote the following:
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| Traffic Tickets | Devices designed to evade speed enforcement by radar, photo-radar, or laser devices. |
| Usenet | Access to Usenet/Newsgroup content. |