Rant: Ads on Blogs
I really don’t think there’s anything wrong with ads on blogs. In fact, I toyed with the idea myself. But since one of my aims is to use this blog to communicate with clients, I decided not to go that route.
Back in the days when Google first bought Blogger (only about a year or two ago, but that’s forever in internet time), ads were mandatory — they were on the very top of the blog, above the name. That was ok, because the blog was free, after all. They’ve since changed that policy, because they are heavily promoting AdSense.
Now we find that AOL is putting ads on their member’s blogs. That’s just plain wrong. But that’s not what I want to talk about.
There are three things about ads that bug me: ad-encrusted blogs, ads in RSS feeds, and sneaky ads.
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