The BBC recently injected ads into all of their podcasts. Before you start listening to a podcast you get the "This podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. For a long time it was cross promotion but recently that switched to two to three French Swiss ads in a row, before the start of a podcast and then cross-promotion for other ads....
Posts tagged “ads”
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A Script to Trim Podcast Ads — Mar 30, 2026 -
Pivoting from Google Adsense to BuyMeACoffee — Nov 17, 2025A few days ago I removed Google Adsense from this blog because of two reasons. The first is that Google Adsense automatic ad placement is spam like, rather than reasonable. Ads are placed too frequently, and they obstruct us from reading content. The second reason is that on a low traffic site like mine it takes years between payouts. This means that I pester readers, without getting anything in return....
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Google Adsense Ads Removed — Oct 10, 2025For years, or even decades I have had Google Adsense on my site, and I have been paid several times over the years. In recent years though Google Adsense has flooded my site with ads, but has not flooded me with revenue so yesterday I removed the ads.... -
A Dormant YouTube Habit — Nov 7, 2024For months now I have had Pihole running, and other ad blocking solutions working. I said, at the time that I don’t feel bad about using ad blockers because they’re so invasive, especially with YouTube, among other platforms.... -
Initial Thoughts on Setting Up a Pi Hole — Dec 11, 2023Today I installed Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 and configured it so that the router routes traffic through the Pi Hole before returning to the devices on my network. Installing Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 is relatively straight forward. Find the two or three lines of code, run them, and a minute or two later the device is ready and waiting.... -
Arguing Against Ads on Twitter and YouTube — Oct 21, 2023Twitter and YouTube want to make it impossible to block report, or ignore ads. The reason I dumped Facebook and Instagram is that I saw more ads than content by friends. In fact I saw posts by five to ten friends, out of four hundred, but unlimited amounts of ads. This reminded me of how small my Instagram reality was, but also that others were wasting my time to make money for themselves. This is an awful business model....
