Evil advertisers alert
November 3rd, 2008Well, Google’s Adsense has finally pissed me off. The twits who think the world will end when people of the same gender marry have bought up blog space across the California blogosphere and their aggravating, misleading ads are showing up right where you’d expect: on non-partisan sites advocating such controversial topics as walking upright in nature. (A contradiction, given these people’s knuckle-dragging tendencies). Modern Hiker and Calipidder have had the same thing happen.
I know I count many good Christians among my readers who see walking in nature as celebrating what a great planet God gave us. I know some might take a dim view of same-sex marriage (I know too many perfectly decent folks of gay persuasion; I couldn’t look any of them in the eye and tell them I know better than they do about how their lives with their life partners should be structured. I’m married, why shouldn’t they be? That’s all I’ll say on the matter.) Sorry if my ranting on this bugs you or offends you. Well, I’m sorry you’re so easily offended. Ease up, OK?
I went went into my Google account and changed some settings that are supposed to filter out unwanted ads. It takes a couple hours for them to kick in, they say. Hopefully the filters will kick in soon.
It would violate Google’s policies for me to encourage you to click on these ads — even though it would be taking money from people I have no use for and giving it to, well, me. As much as I’d like to punish their pocketbooks, I don’t want their money.
I just want their ads off my blog — without having to take all the other ones off.
(Daily Kos tells how to remove yours if they show up there. More coverage at Valleywag.)
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I also requested the block but it hasn’t yet happened. So instead I removed my side bar ads until after the election and put a No on Prop 8 button front and center. I also wrote a long rant, but removed it. You said it much better than me. Knuckle-dragging tendencies indeed.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Wow, Google an evil advertiser. The only knuckles that are scraped are from Google execs dragging buckets of money around.
November 4th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Well said Tom. Well said. I try to avoid politics while walking upright in the woods but I for one am hoping to see Prop 8 go down in flames. No on 8!
November 4th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Holy crap!
It is on my blog as well. Thanks for the heads up. I cannot believe I am inadvertently advertising for something I am adamantly opposed to. I hope that any readers are intellegent enough to know why these ads are showing up on these blogs.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
The problem was these hate filled Mormon bigots which whipped out their fellow hate filled Christians in California, trying to remove people’s human rights and civil rights solely because they’re filled with hate.