Monday, April 1, 2019

Ads on blogs? Not mine!

I just discovered that some bloggers had ads running on their blogs without their knowledge.  I don't think that's ever happened to me, but how would I know?  Have you ever seen any ads on this blog?  If so, I didn't put it there, didn't want it there, didn't know it was there.  I'm not blogging to make money, and I would not want ads placed on my blog without my knowledge.

4 comments:

Helen's Book Blog said...

Never seen any ads. I don't love it when ads pop up on book blogs, especially when they get in the middle of a post.

Bonnie Jacobs said...

Thanks, Helen. It's good to know. I've never seen ads on other "blogspot" blogs of my bookish friends, but who knows, these days?

Martha Spong said...

Wordpress runs some ads, which I suppose is part of the price of having a free blog.

Bonnie Jacobs said...

Thanks for that information, Martha. Blogger (which this is/was, before Google took it over) is also free. I hope it never has ads. I have no idea how it makes money for Blogger ... or if it does at all. I don't know why Google took over, or why they seem to have left. Google made changes, like only allowing notices about "follow-up comments" to be sent to my gmail account, which I opened only to be able to comment. But I never check that account. No telling what may be lurking there, waiting in vain for me to see it. Before Google, Blogger sent notifications to my yahoo account. I started blogging in January 2007, so I've been here a dozen years, but I don't know what may have recently changed when Google left.I At least I *THINK* they did.