Dropping Adsense

June 28, 2007 by Stephan Schmidt

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Inspired by a post on Coding Horror I’m dropping advertisements here.

“I am no fan of advertising. I hate the fact that most websites are plastered with obnoxious, barely relevant ads. I’ve considered advertising before, but I rejected it. I don’t want to be part of the problem.”

I too hate the fact that most websites are plastered with barely relevant ads. Until now I have never seen myself as part of the problem because I only use one block of light Adsense ads in the sidebar, not several blocks everywhere. But the post opened my eyes and I now can see myself as part of the problem.

So I’ll drop ads here.

Perhaps ads will come back sometimes in the future, when I have to live from them or I can support other open source developers. Until then, no ads.

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About the author: Stephan Schmidt is head of development at brands4friends. He has more than 15 years of internet technology experience and 10 years experience in agile. He was head of development, consultant and CTO and is a speaker, author and blog writer. He specializes in organizing and optimizing software development helping companies by increasing productivity with lean software development and agile methodologies. Want to know more? All views are only his own.

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Yuen-Chi Lian

June 29th, 2007

I’ve never planned for having an ad in my blog or webbie, just yet to see any actual reasons to.

Oliver

July 11th, 2007

Dropping AdSense? Well what’s that ad to the right then ? ;)

Oliver

July 11th, 2007

Oh well now it is gone, very strange I saw a public ad there.

stephan

July 11th, 2007

@Olli: Use the force – aeh Gravatar Mail Adress =G=

Yes from time to time I also see things !

No beer with the French and the Koschs. How sad.

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