Disturbing Ads
15 11 2007
Didn’t somebody write how to tame Google ads? If so, could you contact the webmaster for these sites and teach them. Nothing like going to a free software site and seeing an ad for Vista.
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Maybe it’s supposed to be ironic?
Heh, I don’t see those adds, using konqueror with the built-in ad blocker. I remember another linux site having anti-linux ads supporting ms windows. I think it was linux.com.
Google’s AdSense has an anti-competitor feature where you can list URLs that shouldn’t be advertized on your site. It’s quite simple.
Thank you for your hint.
I have put micosoft on our competitor filter, now.
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Frank
click it!
@Frank: Rock on! although you have to admit it was kind of funny
So if you see a bunch of gets back to back at about 14:00 UTC, that was me 
Refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh, dangit, I know I saw it…refresh, refresh, refresh
Look at it this way: MS just paid for the expenses of those sites, with minimal probability of anyone caring about the ad (Users of gnome-look and kde-look having to shop for Vista? How likely is that?).
Doesn’t sound so bad, does it?
When I was playing with Iceape the other day (wouldn’t let me install Adblock Plus… I need to look into that) I saw a Windows Server ad on Linux.com. What’s up?
I’m with Adriano on this one. Microsoft is helping pay for that site to run. All of nixternal’s refreshes sucked a wee bit of money out of Redmond and pushed it into the Free’o’sphere.
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@Erigami: hahahaha! If only the refreshes brought them money, they would be billionaires after my stint of refreshes
Just leave the ads on the site.
Most Linuxers know that every click on these ads
- gives money to the website owner which in turn helps Linux
- costs Microsoft even more money as they pay for every click
By the way:
I click on every Microsoft ad I see. I just make sure that I empty the browser cache and delete the cookies when ever I start the browser in order to make sure that they really have to pay.
I enjoy every click
Yeah, I click on every Microsoft ad too.
Brutal :/