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Posted By: MaaMaw In Response To: Control over Adsense (michael webster)
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, at 3:10 p.m.
and we talked about it ad pukium the day I put it up and the whole week following -- then I took the thread down because I was afraid of Google thinking I was trying to call attention to the ads and zapping me into the eternal fires of Google Damnation.
For the above reasons, I'm not going to get too carried away with my reply; maybe someone else will want to chime in though.
> It is my understanding that the webmaster has no or little control over
> the ads placed by Google, having signed up for the adsense program -other
> than clearly objectionable ads.
Not even much control over those, because if you have several sites on a single Google account, you can use up your URL filters pretty fast. My priority is not showing dissected lab animals to the kids who visit AZoo, and anyway, trying to filter out biz-op scam ads is like trying to empty the ocean with a Dixie cup.
> Given that this site, among others, attempts to educate, warn and advise
> individuals of bogus opportunities, how appropriate is that the Ads by
> Goooooogle may lead to bogus, fraud or scams?
That's why I didn't do it for so long... then I decided to put a warning in plain sight and stop throwing money away. (It's the first time in my life I've put making my mortgage payment ahead of my obsessive-compulsive "value system" and I think I've been a fool for too long.)
> The site has credibility, and it is one of the view consumer sites that I
> have my blog link to, but I worry about the difference between the message
> and the ads.
Three people said it best. Like I said, the thread is gone, but this is the gist of their messages:
"You can't be everybody's mother."
"If they read Scams 101 AND the warnings AND the board and they still get scammed, it isn't your problem; if they didn't click on the scam here, they would have clicked on it somewhere else.
"Do you honestly believe that reputable newspapers and magazines worry for one second about whose ads they're carrying?" (No, they don't. Witness the envelope-stuffing schemes that used to fill a page in T.V. Guide.)
That's the poop.
Luv,
MaaMaw
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