Code Monkeyism

Programming is hard by Stephan Schmidt

June 28, 2007

Dropping Adsense

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.

About the author: Stephan Schmidt is currently a team manager at ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin. Stephan has been working as a head of development and CTO. He has used a lot of different technologies in the last 20 years including Java, Rails and Python. Stephans main field of interest is maintainablity and productivity in software development. Want to know more? All views are only his own.

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Comments

Yuen-Chi Lian

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

yc

June 29th, 2007
Oliver

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

July 11th, 2007
Oliver

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

July 11th, 2007
stephan

@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.

July 11th, 2007

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