Brief Episode

In covering Google’s supporting the opponents of Prop 8, Tech Crunch writer Michael Arrington notes that Google will continue to offer their advertizing services to the Yes On 8 bigots.

Meanwhile, TechCrunch’s article has ads served by Google and guess what?

Well, you can see it for yourself on the right.  It’s an amazing bit of Doublespeak for such a small ad.  “Support marriage rights” — by taking them away from a group.

The great thing about online media is that things get updated:

Update: We’re also seeing these ads on TechCrunch, although we can’t tell if they’re coming from our ad partner Federated Media or Google (FM syndicates filler ads from Google). Trying to take them down.

Update 2: they’re coming through Google, and we’re going to try to filter them out now.

TechCrunch

Anthony Argenziano Tweeted that the comments section was great.

I found a lot of invective.

But also this tech tip for the TechCrunchers:

“What’s really pissing us off is that the ads are also appearing here on TechCrunch, and we have no way of stopping them short of pulling the Adsense code off the site.”

Problem Solved:
You can block ads you don’t want to see in AdSence. Goto “Adwords setup” tab and click “Competitive Ad Filter”

[Hat tip: Anthony Argenziano ]

Another recent example from a banner ad widget serving ads last week against the apparent viewpoint of the publication.  Alas, also in the same vein.

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