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Offline Sandwich

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Google Ads are back
on: June 23, 2006, 10:32:17 am
I'd like everyone to take note that the Google ads are now back. Don't abuse things... please.

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Offline Skippy

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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #1 on: June 23, 2006, 10:37:26 am
Congrats :yes: ;)
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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #2 on: June 23, 2006, 11:47:06 am
Now, that I KNOW, that I shouldn't klick everything, I'll only klick two google-ads a day...
That's not too much, is it?
 

Offline Goober5000

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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #3 on: June 23, 2006, 12:00:13 pm
Quote from: Mr_Maniac on June 23, 2006, 11:47:06 am
Now, that I KNOW, that I shouldn't klick everything, I'll only klick two google-ads a day...
That's not too much, is it?

Don't click unless you're interested in the ad or it's an accident.  Don't set yourself a quota of "two clicks per day", or they might detect a pattern.
 

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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #4 on: June 23, 2006, 12:31:10 pm
Well, at least there's more money for the admins. :D
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Offline Wanderer

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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #5 on: June 23, 2006, 12:37:57 pm
Wasnt there some sort of protection software thingye? That is something that tries to prevent the extra clicks?
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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #6 on: June 23, 2006, 01:30:52 pm
I don't even want to see people saying "I'll click X times per year"... don't plan on clicking AT ALL. I'm serious. If something interests you, fine. If not, do NOT click just for the hell of it.
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #7 on: June 23, 2006, 02:03:54 pm
Hmm, I always wanted some small animal ventilators...

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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #8 on: June 23, 2006, 02:55:22 pm
Quote from: Sandwich on June 23, 2006, 01:30:52 pm
I don't even want to see people saying "I'll click X times per year"... don't plan on clicking AT ALL. I'm serious. If something interests you, fine. If not, do NOT click just for the hell of it.

But what if NOTHING of these Ads are interesting to me? :(

P.S.: I'd really LOVE to buy something from ThinkGeek, but I live in Germany...
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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #9 on: June 23, 2006, 02:59:41 pm
I'm sure you can find an adaptor.


Quote from: Cobra on June 23, 2006, 12:31:10 pm
Well, at least there's more money for the admins. :D

Or, more money to keep the damned server running, no? :rolleyes:
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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #10 on: June 23, 2006, 08:09:34 pm
Quote from: Mr_Maniac on June 23, 2006, 02:55:22 pm
But what if NOTHING of these Ads are interesting to me? :(

Then, like me, you won't click on anything. It's very rare that I click on ANY ad, on ANY site. I'm just not very drawn in by them. Don't worry, don't feel under any sort of obligations of any sort. Just enjoy the forums. :)
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #11 on: June 23, 2006, 11:09:17 pm
Quote from: vyper on June 23, 2006, 02:59:41 pm
I'm sure you can find an adaptor.


Quote from: Cobra on June 23, 2006, 12:31:10 pm
Well, at least there's more money for the admins. :D

Or, more money to keep the damned server running, no? :rolleyes:

what i just ****ing said.
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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #12 on: June 23, 2006, 11:15:25 pm
Quote from: Cobra on June 23, 2006, 11:09:17 pm
what i just ****ing said.

No, you didn't.  There is a huge difference between money that goes to keep the server running and money that goes into the admins' pockets.

We've been operating the site at a loss for a few months now because of the whole ad snafu.  In the meantime Sandwich has had to eat most of our operating expenses.

We are not running this site to make money.
 

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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #13 on: June 24, 2006, 12:02:42 am
Quote from: Goober5000 on June 23, 2006, 11:15:25 pm
We are not running this site to make money.

Dang straight. This is a community, not a business.
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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #14 on: June 24, 2006, 02:46:27 am
So how did you convince them to give us a second chance?
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Offline Fury

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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #15 on: June 24, 2006, 05:03:30 am
We didn't.

And the first post in this thread has been updated a bit.
 

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Reply #16 on: June 29, 2006, 12:38:41 am
Cool, what's with the big "thinkgeek" thing though?
actualy, mabye not.
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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #17 on: June 29, 2006, 07:54:32 am
No reason to take it down. It's potential income, too.

It's not a part of the Google ads, if that's what you're asking.

Oh, and BTW, I enabled Google image ads, to see how annoying or not they are. Let me know.
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #18 on: June 30, 2006, 09:42:32 am
Nothing annoying but I dunno whether "Gay and Lesbian Wedding Rings" is the kind of material this site should carry.
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Re: Google Ads are back
Reply #19 on: June 30, 2006, 09:45:11 am
You disagree with gay/lesbian marriage? You disagree with the advert targetting gays/lesbians? You disagree with gays/lesbians? Explain.  :wtf:
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