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undyingking ([personal profile] undyingking) wrote2009-10-27 09:13 am
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Ad hominem

A little while ago LJ introduced a feature allowing paid members to display Google Adsense ads on their journals. Here's their post about it.

I use ABP to block such ads from all my browsing, so I have no idea to what extent it's been taken up, but I am slightly curious. Do any of you have any idea? Are any of you displaying such ads yourselves?

[identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com 2009-10-28 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
At the moment most of the ads it's showing on mine are to do with cricket.

That's actually not bad!

Most of the sites I see so-called "smart" ads on it's either acai berries or Evony regardless of the site's topic.

[identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com 2009-10-28 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
You might remember a few years ago I ran a play-by-web game, Mighty Oaks, in which players managed trees that had to grow leaves, fruit etc. I had Google ads alongside that for a while, and they were invariably for plant nurseries or similar. OTOH Spore Wars, the game about alien miscegenators, never got any even vaguely relevant ads (perhaps just as well).