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I love it that to the right of this post was TechCrunch advertising for "make $1000/day from home!".

• nikcub 17y ago
  we do what we can to filter those ads out on the page by maintaining a blacklist in adsense. it isn't easy to manage, which is a whole other story
  • devicenull 17y ago
    It's essentially trivial in adblock plus. I regularly install it on people computers that I set up, and I've never heard of any complaints, nor seen it not working.
    • staunch 17y ago
      You misunderstood the issue. Nik Cubrilovic works at TechCrunch -- he was talking about filtering out Google AdSense advertisers on TechCrunch.
  • jlees 17y ago
    We had the same problem on a WoW site that would frequently end up with gold-selling ads popping up no matter how hard we tried to firefight with blacklisting. We got readers to submit every bad ad they could see, and even pulled the ads at least once, because of the impact on our 'honesty' as readers perceived us.
    • nikcub 17y ago
      I would love to drill into this topic because it is related to the main thread. There are some networks and providers who care about the issue of pushing bad ads, while others turn a blind eye since they have no incentive to keep these ads off your site. Don't be surprised if the current series of TC posts eventually lead into discussing ad networks. For now, please email me (nik at tc) if you do see these ads popup, we dislike them as much, if not more, than the readers do.