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[solipsistnation]

A pro-Proposition-8 web site the URL for which I will not provide here has apparently bought up a ton of impressions on google ads (or whatever the metric for buying web ad space might be) and made sure that everyone coming in from an identifiable California IP address get handed their repulsive "Protect the family!" bullshit.

I've been sending emails to editors of sites I respect letting them know this. Ideally they'll actually care (or will tell me they support Prop 8, which will give me a good excuse to clean out the bookmark menu).

Still, it's pretty frickin' nasty. Did I say "repulsive" already? Well, here you go again: It's repulsive.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Click away and make them spend their ill-gotten money.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

But I might get some stupid on my computer, and then where would I be?

(I mean, you know, after scraping off the rest of the internet.)

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no shit. I'm connected via VPN to Sling, so my surfing seems to come from Foster City, CA. Suddenly today every site I go to seems to have a frackin' "Yes On 8" Google Ad - including my own site (GizmoLovers.com). I doubt most of the sites are aware of it, I certainly didn't expect it on my site. They really carpet bombed their keyword purchases by the look of it.

I have to figure out how to block that ad...

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Click the "Ads by Google" link to send in a complaint, too. Although, right, you're an advertiser, so you should be able to add them to your "competitive ad" filter. Of course, the editor of createdigitalmusic.com did this and it doesn't seem to have blocked it...

The people I've mailed so far have been pretty unhappy about it showing up on their sites.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I added their site to my filter but it hasn't stopped them. Of course they're flash ads so I can't see what the actual URL is, so it could be a redirect... Wait, I have a traffic sniffer...

Nope, the adurl is protectmarriage.com, and I have blocked the domain yet the ads keep coming.

[mephron]

Scott Kurtz of PVPOnline went fucking ballistic about the situation and is trying to get it blocked, too.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

It's mostly gone from the sites where I saw it before... Dunno if that's on a site-by-site basis or what.

And musicthing.co.uk now has a "Problem with the ads? Mail me!" link on the front page.

[amymarr.livejournal.com]

Pardon my ignorance, but Prop 8? Is that the marriage thing?

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's the one.

[thebloodystarr.livejournal.com]

I really wish I lived in Cali so I could vote on this (& by 'on this' I mean against it). We had nothing exciting on our ballot this am. We had to vote for things like coroner & clerk of courts....