Ad hominem

[undyingking]

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?

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[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know. I mean I'm vaguely aware of there being text ads on an awful lot of web pages, but I just sort of mentally tune them out, rather like anything banner ad shaped. I have a Plus account, which uses ads by default, but I've not tried to profit from it.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I don't think you can, from a Plus account -- money raised on those ads just goes to LJ itself.

But part of the attraction (to some people) of a Paid account was that it didn't have ads spewed all over it for the enrichment of the sinister LJ bosses, so I was wondering how such people reacted to the possibility of spewing their own ads all over it instead.

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

Ah, now I don't really care about sinister LJ bosses being enriched, as long as it's not at my expense.

Hmm, Do you think "spewn" sounds better than "spewed"? I don't think it's technically correct in any way, but I doubt that will concern you! "...spewn all over the place", I quite like that.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, I like "spewn"! I shall start using it forthwith.