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  "title": "Google ad madness",
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  "html": "<p>Wow.  Can you identify the actual content on <a href=\"http://www.feedblog.org/2006/01/yahoo_music_for.html\">this blog entry</a>?  I count plenty of ads, but it took me a minutes to see the short bit of original content there.  No slight intended to the particular author there, since it's something I'm seeing more and more.  But, man.  Last time I had Google ads on my site, I thought the rules were just one ad block per page.  Yeesh.</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083516\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.joegrossberg.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f288a8afe5302a16a366d5e9d34f2fec&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.joegrossberg.com\">Joe Grossberg</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221083516\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-19T15:59:11\">2006-01-19T15:59:11</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Looks just fine, because I use Adblock to keep Google ads out of my Firefox (it can block js scripts by URL).</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083517\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.soylentred.net/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=633c41346f349b55b8e86445fa28ca21&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.soylentred.net/\">Rory Parle</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221083517\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-19T16:21:01\">2006-01-19T16:21:01</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>That's just terrible.  Who would read that? I'd want to have a very compelling reason to stick around on a site like that. That density of ads is just plain <em>rude</em>. I've noticed a similar overload on <a href=\"http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Rumbling Edge</a>, the Thunderbird bugs blog. On my setup the content of any page on that blog is pushed under the fold by the ads.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083520\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e17949267bbfe21a0fadf1bbf00592b4&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\">Aristotle Pagaltzis</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221083520\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-19T18:17:30\">2006-01-19T18:17:30</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Looks fine to me as well:</p>\n<pre><code>$ grep -i google /etc/hosts\n0.0.0.0         pagead2.googlesyndication.com\n</code></pre></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083521\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2377f34a68801b861c3e54e1301f0dce&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221083521\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-19T19:12:41\">2006-01-19T19:12:41</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Heh, okay okay, <em>physician heal thyself</em> and all that...  I finally installed Adblock on Firefox <em>and</em> tweaked my hosts file just in case I happen to switch back to Safari.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083522\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://anton.lr2.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=8397967fc904063a46ec37ccdf251db2&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://anton.lr2.com/\">Anton</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221083522\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-22T03:42:59\">2006-01-22T03:42:59</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Google's TOS allows no more than one of each type of ad on a page.  I'm not sure if they limit the total number, but they might ought to.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083523\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feedblog.org\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c2cb359ff3ec0e0eb4426089e179ce3f&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://feedblog.org\">Kevin Burton</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221083523\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-23T07:57:29\">2006-01-23T07:57:29</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Yeah.. it's just been ad creep.  I need to update the templates...</p>\n<p>I didn't realize how bad it had gotten :)</p>\n<p>Thanks for the feedback!</p>\n<p>Kevin</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083525\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2377f34a68801b861c3e54e1301f0dce&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221083525\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-23T11:47:32\">2006-01-23T11:47:32</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Kevin: Yeah, no offense man... after looking at a few more posts on your site, I realize it doesn't look as bad for longer posts.  I think with that template, for a shorter one-off thought, it hit me in the face with \"ADS ADS ADS\"  :)</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083527\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.welt-blick.de\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=db893dfa6f3ab394bbbe463ac7e8220e&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.welt-blick.de\">Alex</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221083527\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-04-17T22:35:40\">2006-04-17T22:35:40</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Allowed are 3 normal ads and 2 link ads - so you can put 5 ads on every page.</p>\n<p>But of course it looks really terrible if you do so...</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "Wow.  Can you identify the actual content on [this blog entry][p]?  I count plenty of ads, but it took me a minutes to see the short bit of original content there.  No slight intended to the particular author there, since it's something I'm seeing more and more.  But, man.  Last time I had Google ads on my site, I thought the rules were just one ad block per page.  Yeesh.\r\n\r\n[p]: http://www.feedblog.org/2006/01/yahoo_music_for.html\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083516\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.joegrossberg.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f288a8afe5302a16a366d5e9d34f2fec&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.joegrossberg.com\">Joe Grossberg</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221083516\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-19T15:59:11\">2006-01-19T15:59:11</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Looks just fine, because I use Adblock to keep Google ads out of my Firefox (it can block js scripts by URL).</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083517\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.soylentred.net/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=633c41346f349b55b8e86445fa28ca21&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.soylentred.net/\">Rory Parle</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221083517\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-19T16:21:01\">2006-01-19T16:21:01</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>That's just terrible.  Who would read that? I'd want to have a very compelling reason to stick around on a site like that. That density of ads is just plain <em>rude</em>. I've noticed a similar overload on <a href=\"http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Rumbling Edge</a>, the Thunderbird bugs blog. On my setup the content of any page on that blog is pushed under the fold by the ads.</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083520\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e17949267bbfe21a0fadf1bbf00592b4&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://plasmasturm.org/\">Aristotle Pagaltzis</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221083520\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-19T18:17:30\">2006-01-19T18:17:30</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Looks fine to me as well:</p>\r\n\r\n<pre><code>$ grep -i google /etc/hosts\r\n0.0.0.0         pagead2.googlesyndication.com\r\n</code></pre></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083521\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2377f34a68801b861c3e54e1301f0dce&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221083521\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-19T19:12:41\">2006-01-19T19:12:41</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Heh, okay okay, <em>physician heal thyself</em> and all that...  I finally installed Adblock on Firefox <em>and</em> tweaked my hosts file just in case I happen to switch back to Safari.</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083522\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://anton.lr2.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=8397967fc904063a46ec37ccdf251db2&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://anton.lr2.com/\">Anton</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221083522\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-22T03:42:59\">2006-01-22T03:42:59</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Google's TOS allows no more than one of each type of ad on a page.  I'm not sure if they limit the total number, but they might ought to.</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083523\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://feedblog.org\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c2cb359ff3ec0e0eb4426089e179ce3f&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://feedblog.org\">Kevin Burton</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221083523\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-23T07:57:29\">2006-01-23T07:57:29</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Yeah.. it's just been ad creep.  I need to update the templates...</p>\r\n\r\n<p>I didn't realize how bad it had gotten :)</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Thanks for the feedback!</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Kevin</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083525\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2377f34a68801b861c3e54e1301f0dce&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221083525\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-01-23T11:47:32\">2006-01-23T11:47:32</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Kevin: Yeah, no offense man... after looking at a few more posts on your site, I realize it doesn't look as bad for longer posts.  I think with that template, for a shorter one-off thought, it hit me in the face with \"ADS ADS ADS\"  :)</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083527\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.welt-blick.de\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=db893dfa6f3ab394bbbe463ac7e8220e&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.welt-blick.de\">Alex</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221083527\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2006-04-17T22:35:40\">2006-04-17T22:35:40</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Allowed are 3 normal ads and 2 link ads - so you can put 5 ads on every page.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>But of course it looks really terrible if you do so...</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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