Thursday, May 06, 2010

Maybe I made a mistake by allowing AdSense

Last week I decided to try to make a few bucks from this blog by allowing Google AdSense. I've had two politically-oriented posts which clearly indicate that I'm a liberal Democrat and opposed to the the worship of markets. Yet I'm getting ads urging people to urge Senator Bayh to vote against environmental legislation and the regulation of banks. I'll keep AdSense on for a while, but if my liberal blog is going to become a platform for right-wing nuts, I'll have to forgo the money.

5 comments:

Elizabeth said...

Yeah -- during the election I suddenly had an adsense ad promoting the passage of Prop 8. I was horrified.

Charles Gramlich said...

That would be freaky. Not sure I could put up with that either.

steve on the slow train said...

Elizabeth--that's pretty scary.

Charles--Thanks. I'll just keep an eye on it for now.

SzélsőFa said...

in Hungary, there are family houses by large roads, and advertisement companies pay some amount to the owner for putting up large ad panels.
i would not take that money either. i just can't imagine my garden adversiting a bank, or some politician i dislike.

steve on the slow train said...

SzélsőFa--Good to hear from you. Haven't received any money so far, but I don't have a big readership. I've still got AdSense, but maybe it doesn't make any sense.