I know this is a little “old hat” to a lot of people out there, but recently my wife was showing me a great Firefox Add-on she’s been using called Adblocker Plus. I thought to myself, FINALLY someone has gotten together and started creating a blacklist for web advertisement which has gotten out of hand. Some websites I’ve visited have well over half of the page content covered with ads for one thing or another.
Once I installed the add-on I realized how hypocritical I was being (and perhaps a little ironic) that the Add-on I just installed was blocking ads from my own blog! 
It was at this point I decided to strip all ‘for profit’ ads from my blog and decided to just let the user bask in the glory that is my writing without any distractions
Seriously though, it’s a joke. The Google AdWords banner I had on the left hand side has been up now for over six months and I’ve only received about a 0.001% click through rate. And in the last year and a half I’ve been signed up for the program, I haven’t even generated enough clicks to receive a single check from Google. So fuck that program 
Anyways, it got me to thinking about how these programs almost poison a lot of the content on the internet because they entice the publisher with the possibility that their seemingly free content can start generating revenue without their having to do anything. The down side is that it’s turning the Internet into a virtual version of the future depicted in Idiocracy.
“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”
So in an effort to clean up and perhaps maintain a little integrity on my corner of the Interweb, as I said, I removed all ‘for profit’ advertising in hopes that it’ll start a massive internet wide movement of bloggers everywhere to let go of their dreams of being Internet Millionaires and accept that the only reason they have advertising is that they know there isn’t a person alive who’d actually pay real money to hear anything they’d have to say!
I Kid! I’m just doing it because I think ads are lame and I don’t want to be a self hater
Cheers!
