{"id":189489,"date":"2010-03-20T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/20\/this-time-google-adsense-serves-up-evil\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T02:53:00","slug":"this-time-google-adsense-serves-up-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/20\/this-time-google-adsense-serves-up-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"This Time Google\u2122 Adsense\u2122 Serves Up Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img52.imageshack.us\/img52\/1615\/imgad1205198.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>I saw this ad on my blog, and was not clear what it was about, so I clicked through (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">generally a no-no, but I&#8217;ve done it about 3 times simply because the ad made me wonder about what was behind it<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>What is this an ad for?  It&#8217;s an ad for ACTON Marketing LLC, of Lincoln Nebraska, and what they are selling is a method to get people to sign up for NSF (insufficient funds) overdraft protection.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, those scummy fees on bank cards, and these scummy marketers have a program to try to browbeat people into explicitly opting into those programs, as is now required by law.<\/p>\n<p>So, once again, I am getting advertisements from the dark side,<\/p>\n<p>Please note: once again, that I do not vet, nor do I endorse any ad that  appears on my site, and I reserve the right to mock both the ads that  appear on my site, as well as the advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>Also, please note,  this should be in no way 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 Google<sup>\u2122<\/sup> Adsense<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this ad on my blog, and was not clear what it was about, so I clicked through (generally a no-no, but I&#8217;ve done it about 3 times simply because the ad made me wonder about what was behind it). What is this an ad for? It&#8217;s an ad for ACTON Marketing LLC, of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1072],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-adsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189489"}],"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=189489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}