I’ve (finally) entirely disabled any ads on my blog. I’d been playing with Google Adsense on and off for years, but it’s long since lost any real use for me. Where I used to get $300 every quarter or so, I haven’t received a payout check from them since I’m honestly not sure when. What with the move from context-sensitive, not terribly intrusive, plain-text ads to larger graphic ads that never seem to have any relation to the surrounding context and the rise of near-ubiquitous ad blocking software (and this isn’t a complaint, as I use ad blockers myself), it’s just not worth the hassle and the annoyance they’d present to those few people who would still see them anymore.
For most of you, this probably wouldn’t even be noticeable if I hadn’t said anything, because I expect you’re either reading through RSS or use an ad blocker. But for those few of you who might actually be visiting the site without an ad blocker running, you’ll now have a more pleasant experience.