{"id":23230,"date":"2020-01-03T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23230"},"modified":"2020-01-03T08:40:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:40:50","slug":"no-more-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/03\/no-more-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve (finally) entirely disabled any ads on my blog. I&#8217;d been playing with Google Adsense on and off for years, but it&#8217;s long since lost any real use for me. Where I used to get $300 every quarter or so, I haven&#8217;t received a payout check from them since I&#8217;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&#8217;t a complaint, as I use ad blockers myself), it&#8217;s just not worth the hassle and the annoyance they&#8217;d present to those few people who would still see them anymore.<\/p>\n<p>For most of you, this probably wouldn&#8217;t even be noticeable if I hadn&#8217;t said anything, because I expect you&#8217;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&#8217;ll now have a more pleasant experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of you, this probably wouldn&#8217;t even be noticeable if I hadn&#8217;t said anything, because I expect you&#8217;re either reading through RSS or use an ad blocker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[393],"class_list":["post-23230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-advertising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}