Many of you likely noticed the addi­tion of Google Ads to this Web site recently. It was some­thing I wanted to try to help cover server costs. While it is not expen­sive to host this site, it does cost some­thing. I thought the ads would help.

I’m not sure why I thought that, hon­estly.  They turned out to be intru­sive. The Flash ones were annoy­ing and added too much to the down­load. The text ones just looked dumb. I was also dis­mayed by the appear­ance of a few gold sell­ing Web sites, which I would block as soon as I saw them.  I felt all of this cheap­ened the over­all site. The last thing I want to do is look like an informer­cial, but I felt that was exactly what happened.

The whole thing made me feel oddly guilty. I wasn’t happy with any of this.

To cut it short: I’ve removed the Google ads entirely. I’ve kept the Killer Guides ad, largely because I believe it’s sim­ple and rel­e­vant. Any­thing sim­i­lar that may or may not be added the future will be highly scru­ti­nized by me. Plus I cer­tainly don’t mind if you block it with some­thing like AdBlock.

So don’t expect ads like that again any time soon. To help com­pen­sate for this, I’ve set up a dona­tion page. If you’d like to donate a buck or two, that would be great. Absolutely every­thing will go toward prop­erly host­ing this Web site. Any­thing left over will help fund pur­chases strictly for con­tests for all of you.

I do not expect this of any­one. If you wish to do so, do so. If you do not, do not. More impor­tantly, I will not bring it up again. I’m not inter­ested in beg­ging either!

In any event, I just wanted to say some­thing about this. Thanks for your under­stand­ing and keep vis­it­ing!

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