{"id":156,"date":"2008-11-03T11:51:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T19:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2008-11-03T11:51:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T19:51:25","slug":"advertising-temporarily-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/advertising-temporarily-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising Temporarily Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My blog has always been purely about geeky computer stuff: RIAs, Rails, Linux, etc. So I was quite surprised to browse to it today and find a political ad regarding one of California&#8217;s propositions in the left-hand sidebar. (Note to non-Californians: proposition == referendum). Google serves these ads directly, through their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\" target=\"_blank\">AdSense<\/a> program. I have no control over what ads gets served. Until now, they have usually been relevant, since Google parses my blog and matches ads based on keywords it finds.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize to my readers for this intrusion.<\/p>\n<p>Since one doesn&#8217;t talk about politics in polite company, I&#8217;ve decided to remove <em>all <\/em>ads from my blog until after tomorrow &#8211; election day &#8211; when no doubt Google will revert to serving discreet text ads packed with warm acronyms.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My blog has always been purely about geeky computer stuff: RIAs, Rails, Linux, etc. So I was quite surprised to browse to it today and find a political ad regarding one of California&#8217;s propositions in the left-hand sidebar. (Note to non-Californians: proposition == referendum). Google serves these ads directly, through their AdSense program. I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/advertising-temporarily-suspended\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertising Temporarily Suspended<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antunkarlovac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}