Adverts?
This post is addressed to all my readers. I knew that in order to have a free blog on WordPress that there would sometimes be ads that some readers would see. I don’t, of course, and if you are logged in you won’t either. What I did not know until now is that these ads can be very intrusive and annoying – and I do not like advertising.
All of this started due to a tweet from one of my readers Robert J Ballantyne
Timethief is correct in this forum: http://bit.ly/pRgXW9. It is in our ToS. OK, but I expected discreet and context sensitive.
So that lead me to consider that I might upgrade to the no ads service – which is ~US$30 a year. However, since I am retired and my income is not only limited but to an extent dependent on the changing relationship between the Canadian dollar and pounds sterling, it is not a commitment I can enter into lightly.
I have not run a poll on the blog for a while, so the question is framed in a way that tries to determine the extent to which ads have intruded. If there is a real need, then the result will be taken seriously. But since I haven’t seen any ads or heard any complaints to date, I was unaware of the issue and, had I not seen the tweet, would continue as I have done. Which, until I am persuaded otherwise, remains the default.
Stephen Rees's blog 
Stephen, I get ads and spam all the time. Yet another click onm “delete” isn’t a big deal.
Thanks for affording your reader’s input.
MB
October 5, 2011 at 12:29 pm
I Agree with MB
Red frog
October 5, 2011 at 12:55 pm
I haven’t noticed any ads at all, but that may be because I use Firefox’s “NoScript” add-on. I don’t do this to avoid ads, I do it to prevent malware – but I guess it must also be blocking ads as well. That’s probably because they all seem to use Flash, which NoScript blocks by default and which I consider an intrusive technology anyway.
So as far as I’m concerned your blog is just fine as is.
Sean
October 5, 2011 at 5:41 pm