Well this certainly seems asinine
I joined the Yahoo Publisher Network, a beta program through which Yahoo provides text ads in much the same way that Google does. I started running the Yahoo text ads on many of my web sites.
A couple of days ago Yahoo sent me a notice stating they’d revised their Publisher Policy. Item ‘11.l’ stated that I will not “display all or part of the Ad Unit to any user located outside the US”. In other words, I can’t allow users outside of the United States to view my pages if there is a Yahoo ad on the page!
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When I spoke with a Yahoo rep on their Publisher Support line, they said I could block either the ads or the pages, but said over and over again that they “couldn’t and wouldn’t” give me any information on how to accomplish such a task. The rep finally told me that I should just firewall or block off “everything but the US” to keep the Yahoo ads from being seen by anyone outside the US. I’m sure their intent is to block only the ads, but they wouldn’t hazard even a suggestion as to the best way to do this. Their “solution” was basically to block off the rest of the world.
