Yes, they frustrate me too. Here's the deal. When you sign up for Google's Adsense, the service that delivers unto me cash money for every click you--my loyal readers--perform on any of the ads here (as of today, a whopping $19.60 has accumulated in my account after three months, payable to me only when it reaches $100), the ads are fed to you automatically based on the content of the site. Clearly, this is a political blog, so I get a lot of political ads. I have the capacity to remove ads, but it is a fairly labor intensive process that I've performed now on a bout a dozen particularly egregious examples. These then, do not ever appear again on the site.
But when you raise $750B, you have a lot of walking around money to buy ads. And the Obama Campaign has been nothing if not savvy in using the web to advertise. I don't have the energy or
inclination to keep up with killing all Obama ads--if I did, there'd be no content on the site.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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Of course you could cancel your Adsense account and consider the $19.60 an in kind donation to political sensibility.....and there's always Wordpress if you begin to feel the Googlearchy is getting a tad "big brotherish".
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