{"id":227,"date":"2011-03-28T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/03\/a-note-on-advertising-on-this-blog\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:00","slug":"a-note-on-advertising-on-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/03\/a-note-on-advertising-on-this-blog.html","title":{"rendered":"A Note on Advertising on this Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywro1yeuDIY\/TZCFVcKwavI\/AAAAAAAADtQ\/ohjtbTx0-WA\/s1600\/piles+of+money.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywro1yeuDIY\/TZCFVcKwavI\/AAAAAAAADtQ\/ohjtbTx0-WA\/s320\/piles+of+money.gif\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I activated the AdSense app from this blogging service.<\/p>\n<p>It was kind of fun seeing what would pop up. Personally I enjoyed seeing things from <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormons<\/a> and Scientologists &amp; figured most of my readers if they actually were going to click on these advertisements were more into it for the irony, or knowing it would send a few cents my way.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like I\u2019ve now made about forty-nine bucks! That\u2019s dinner for two at our local taqueria complete with a margarita for Jan. <\/p>\n<p>I began to have visions of a second (or is it third?) career\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But also political ads began to appear. Some much less easy for me to take as humorous or ironic\u2026<\/p>\n<p>However the robot decides where to send ads the fact I make political comments seem to open that area for their ads.<\/p>\n<p>And some represented views I find rather far from my own. Several even offensive to my admittedly fairly jaded sensibilities\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I began to hesitate\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And then there was an advertisement to defund Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want Planned Parenthood defunded. They\u2019re doing really important work. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not very good about computers (I often brag I\u2019m living proof any idiot can blog) and maybe there\u2019s a way to screen these things. But until I figure out how, I\u2019ve suspended advertising on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>More as the world turns\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-8626970388180754187?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I activated the AdSense app from this blogging service. It was kind of fun seeing what would pop up. 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