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AdSense Suspended

Back in 2005, Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience at Google, stated:

“There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever.”

Apparently Google lacks the same sort of respect for the web sites of its AdSense customers, because they started putting animated advertising on my site.

“Say it aint so.”

According to Google’s “self-service tech support” there is no way to turn them off, short of reverting to text-only ads.

This is wrong on a few levels. And I’m not sure if Google is just being its regular sloppy self or if they are getting desperate for revenue such that they’re finding more wiggle room in the “don’t be evil” philosophy.

Whatever is going on down in Mountain View, I will just get along without the $10/mo or so I’ve gotten from AdSense revenue.

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