{"id":179060,"date":"2018-05-28T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/28\/once-again-i-disavow-an-ad-on-my-site\/"},"modified":"2018-05-28T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T03:21:00","slug":"once-again-i-disavow-an-ad-on-my-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/05\/28\/once-again-i-disavow-an-ad-on-my-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, I Disavow an Ad on My Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/I5ADOVT.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/I5ADOVT.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"90\" \/><\/a>So, I just saw a advertisement from Ashley Madison, the site for people who want to cheat on her spouses.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted the image, but not the link, because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t approve of cheating on one&#8217;s spouse.<sup>*<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Ashley Madison is largely a fraud, <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/07\/10\/ashley-madison-chatbots\/\">relying on bots to create the illusion that there are significant numbers of women on the site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ads on my blog are selected by Google with no input on my part. <\/p>\n<p>Ashley Madison not a business I would recommend to my reader(s) .<\/p>\n<p>It could be worse, and it has been, as was the case in 2008, when I was regularly getting John McCain&#8217;s &#8220;Death Star&#8221; banner ads every time I mocked him.<\/p>\n<p>My standard disclaimer regarding advertisements on my site applies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As always, note that this post should in no way be construed as an inducement or a  request for my reader(s) to click on any ad that they would not  otherwise be inclined to investigate further. This would be a violation  of the terms of service for&nbsp;Google\u2122 Adsense\u2122. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Note that this is different from mutually agreed open relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I just saw a advertisement from Ashley Madison, the site for people who want to cheat on her spouses. I&#8217;ve posted the image, but not the link, because: I don&#8217;t approve of cheating on one&#8217;s spouse.* Ashley Madison is largely a fraud, relying on bots to create the illusion that there are significant numbers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,512,430],"class_list":["post-179060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-google-adsense","tag-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}