Comments on: An Open Letter to Google Ads…

By: Glendy

Glendy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:21:09 +0000

OMG, I hate when someone or some companies, including people running racist ads spread their messages on our Blogs, I also use Google ad sense and I would be fuming if I would see something like this. I went through something similar with a fashion company who attacked me on my blog for not mentioning their financial status in a manner THEY would like. I am glad you wrote this, all fashion indie bloggers should speak out and refuse to show such ads and not kiss corporate butts, our blogs reflect us and our freedom of speech.

By: lopi

lopi — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:43:52 +0000

That’s just infuriating! I am not even american, but I still find this completely insulting. I hope the google headquarters will reason up and solve this.

By: Minjae

Minjae — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:25:20 +0000

Yikes I had no idea as I usually read stuff through NewsGator… Thanks for the post!

By: songy

songy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:21:57 +0000

I’m glad that I’m not running any ads in my blog.

By: Kezia

Kezia — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:10:14 +0000

Great post!

By: Fashion Therapist

Fashion Therapist — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:53:34 +0000

Thank you for this post. I don’t live in California anymore either but am encouraging all my friends to vote NO!

By: Jennine

Jennine — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:14:08 +0000

christina, THANK YOU for alerting me to this….it’s crazy…

i agree with both christina and meli about the right to opinion… it’s just that it’s such a strong statement to just go a blog without permission.

By: meli

meli — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:30:59 +0000

YES!!!!! absolutely crazy. A pal pointed it out to me. Political ads on blogs gone wrong. GRRR!!
I also took (them) down, just the big lie on ‘everything related to your blog’ didn’t apply to this. Im sure when it came to propositions they paid whatever to get their paws on blogs, lame. Powerless I felt, and I also took the ads OUT.
Thanks for posting this <3 -I agree each person should have their opinion but not their blog pested with HUGE banners, I ditto Christina-

argh.

-let freedom ring-
xo/ meli (voted today!!!)

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:09:16 +0000

Thank you greatly for posting this Jennine! Hopefully enough bloggers have taken these ads down before too many people read them. I don’t know what makes me more upset: the fact that Google Ads ran these political ads without our consent, or, that they posted these ads, ALL OVER every ad section. I have google ads in three separate sections and this ran on all three. It was a hostile take-over. Keeping my fingers crossed for tonight.

Thanks again, you’re the best!!

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:25:50 +0000

I cannot tell you how many such posts I read yesterday and today. It’s so infuriating! Who’s running the show over at Google? Oddly enough, Google is “No on 8″ as a corporation, so then why these ads? It’s a dirty trick, I think.

My Google AdSense just had a PSA encouraging people to go vote, but I would have been mortified if this had happened. It’s really gross that Google (whom we all trust for solid, thoughtful ad content) would let this slip by…