Ads! Commercial advertisements!

ON MY GODDAM FUCKING ANARCHAL COMMUNIST BLOG, BY GOD!!!

WordPress is lovely, WordPress is free, WordPress feeds orphans in Bangladesh, yadda yadda yadda.

Could they not have had the common courtesy to say “We are going to be sticking ads on your blog, starting August 29th, and we are going to be making money off of it, and really there is nothing whatsoever you can do about that if you want to stay here”???

Failing that, could they at least act like good dot-commers and share the luv? Split the proceeds with the bloggers. I’m an anarchal communist and quite frankly being used as an advertising platform in this way was NOT what I had in mind for this blog. Would I be going off on this rant if I had been forwarned? Of course not.

WordPress did announce, a couple of months ago, that they would be “experimenting” with Google Adsense on certain blogs. As I said at the time, rather than just plopping ads on people’s blogs at random, there was sufficient interest among the community (although not me) that they’d have had an eager and full pool of volunteers within hours, had they only asked for one.

Let those people have their ads. But if you’re going to be making money off my writing without paying me for the privilege, then I really think you and I need to talk, sweetie.

I sent in a Feedback. Yes, it was more restrained than this. We’ll see if it’s any more effective. After all, I get a thousand hits a day now.

Which is, I believe, why this whole thing started in the first place.