About the Stupid Ads

Hey gang. In order to get Google to stop throttling my blog, I’ve let them run “experiments” with ads here. You see, when I originally set up this (now out of date) WordPress theme, I did two ads. The first was a small banner ad at the top of the page (web version, not mobile), and one was a small, square add on the side panel. I didn’t want to be intrusive. And back in the day, this would generate a few dollars for me. Today, it barely generates pennies.

That aside, Google has throttled the blog for whatever reasons (and it doesn’t help that I don’t get to blog much; when I do blog, it is often about titles others aren’t watching; and folks today prefer to go to YouTube for reviews and such rather than read a blog). But whenever they do new experiments, amazingly, my traffic goes up quite a bit. So I allow them to experiment.

Anyway, I did remove the most intrusive ad, where you’d get some malware-looking ad come up before the content. Google protested that (’cause apparently, they can trick a lot of folks into clicking this rubbish). I allowed their new “bottom of the page that goes everywhere” ad ’cause it wasn’t that intrusive. Now I see they are inserting ads all over the place, making it looks dumb. (But hey, AI for the win, yay!).

As such, I do apologize for the ad stupidity. I suppose I could just remove the whole lot of it as running the blog is basically a vanity project. Plus, I don’t have a lot of time to blog any more, and when I get time, I never feel like blogging. 😭 That said, I do plan to get something out tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!