Adsense
Posted Jul 18, 2009 13:00 UTC (Sat) by
corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to:
Help wanted by apollock
Parent article:
Help wanted
You may have noticed that we *do* run adsense on the site. There's two problems with it:
- The money from Adsense is welcome, but it's far from enough to solve the problem. There appears to be no shortage of sites selling Linux-related space, so the rates are low.
- Adsense gives almost zero control, and little idea of what's even appearing there. That got driven home when we started getting hate mail from California last November; it seems that Adsense decided to run pro-Proposition 8 ads on LWN for California readers. We still haven't really forgiven that one, it was a real abuse of trust as far as we're concerned.
We would love it if Adsense just made this problem go away, but that is not the way of it.
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