Can a yahoo group advertise and promote the use of other chat clients?

Question

A Yahoo group that I belong to is promoting the use of Paltalk as a chat client and that seems unethical to me. What is the Yahoo stand point on this issue?

Answer 1

depends on how the ad is being used. Yahoo disabled their groups chats and many many groups are using other clients.

read Yahoo TOS

http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/uto...

as long as there is no money exchange I'd bet it's fine

Answer 2

Yahoo! is a business providing a FREE on line chat facility, therefore in order for them to make money out of it they advertise on the unused space, that much I know.

In some companies, advertising space is rented out to an agencies {e.g. the back of a bus} and the space is filled by them. By me there is an advert on the back of a bus for a train service operated by the rival bus company because the space on the bus is theoretically not theirs.