Tag: ads
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Pivoting from Google Adsense to Ko-fi
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few days ago I removed Google Adsense from this blog because of two reasons. The first is that Google Adsense automatic ad placement is spam like, rather than reasonable. Ads are placed too frequently, and they obstruct us from reading content. The second reason is that on a low traffic site…
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Google Adsense Ads Removed
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years, or even decades I have had Google Adsense on my site, and I have been paid several times over the years. In recent years though Google Adsense has flooded my site with ads, but has not flooded me with revenue so yesterday I removed the ads. For a while we…
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A Dormant YouTube Habit
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor months now I have had Pihole running, and other ad blocking solutions working. I said, at the time that I don’t feel bad about using ad blockers because they’re so invasive, especially with YouTube, among other platforms. I also find that when I play games on Android ad blockers work.…
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Initial Thoughts on Setting Up a Pi Hole
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I installed Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 and configured it so that the router routes traffic through the Pi Hole before returning to the devices on my network. Installing Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 is relatively straight forward. Find the two or three lines of code,…