Sunday, September 10, 2017

What Not To Read: Advertising Links

I love the advertising brochures on the ferry boats.  Yes, we have legal weed in Washington. And Teatro moved to the eastside 

The internet is full of wonders. And advertising, because baby needs a new pair of shoes. 

I don't carry ads on this blog. This is no shade on anyone that does; I used to participate in a Mom/Dad Blog group that did embed ads, and I think over the course of the years I got....a dollar.  

What stops me is clickbait. You know, you click on the blog page, you click on a picture, and suddenly a host of pop up windows open like a swarm of locusts. My goal on this blog is to be as easy to read as possible, and as nonannoying as one can be when one is me. Therefore, I don't do the ads. I have links to my shops on Spoonflower and Craftsy and that's annoying enough. Also why I don't keep comments with ad links. Or comments from bots. Bots don't sew for themselves. Yet. 
This ad is right next to the regular content download button. Guess which one pulses? 

The website at work has Google Ad Sense links that inevitably screw some poor bastard up, because you cannot choose AdSense ads, you can only complain about them. Knock down one pulsing "Download Now" button next to your more sedate "Download" button (for content the user paid for), and another three appear. A real part of my job is just using the website to patrol for this stuff. 


I subscribe to and participate in Bloglovin' because it's handy. Several times a week, it sends out a roundup of style blogs, which I never go look at. For this post, however, I did click on one (and it doesn't matter which frankly, but it was about styling with sneakers) and the page won't stop loading. I have Ghostery on my browser, so I can see what inbedded ad trackers there are (because I do analytics on pages and I love to see what people are using) and that purple list is longer than the page is tall. 

The worst is Threads. Love you guys, but to watch the videos, I have to turn off Ghostery, and that means I open the door to the pop ups.

At the bottom of the Threads webpage,  there's two rows of photo links. The second row is Threads material from the same website. The first row is all faux stories/clickbait.

Reader: I fell for it.

And this is embarassing, because you've heard about this one: What Mature* Women Shouldn't Wear

From the website: It’s great when we feel much younger than we are. But it’s not great when it appears we are trying to look a whole lot younger—and not pulling it off! Sometimes we need to come to terms with our stage in life and begin to dress more appropriately. That’s not to say that we can’t have fun, but there’s nothing more aging (and embarrassing) than wearing trends that make you look silly at your age.


If you want to be classy and mature with grace, try avoiding these trends in this slideshow.


1. DANGEROUS DENIM: Low Rise, Bedazzled, Flared, Super Skinny Jeans

2. SEXY STILETTOS: Hooker Heels, Stripper Shoes
3. Silly socks
4 .Tacky tshirts
5 -   -  at this point, every time I click on the slide show, the site starts to add more popup windows, and I do not care for that sort of shenanigan. I love my tacky tshirts. Who are you, my mother? Oh no, you're an advertising farm. And no, grace is not in my rubric.




Hey, edited here! I went onto Threads just now and they have labeled those two rows of content, so that they are clearly identified as fish and foul. But check it out! 70 trackers! And the page keeps reloading and reloading so that it does not remain static. It's almost self-clicking.

On this topic: go read I Will Wear What I Like.  I love you, Man Repeller, but there is no such thing as Menocore (although the comments are a crackup). Don't fall for the bullshit. Get in on Visible Mondays. And of course, read Anne at Spygirl (keeping her in the roll as she belongs)

Wear what you want. If you wear it with your whole heart, you'll be amazing. 

There ya go. No ads. All links are clean, no subroutines, and hand pulled for freshness. 

*well of course. Mature? Me? 58, yes. Mature? Hell, no.
I have two trackers (I don't run Google ads and I don't know why that's there) and there they are. Technorati is eulogized here. If it's dead, why is this still here? Will report later. Gotta go mend some stuff)

11 comments:

  1. I love this!!! When my kids tell me I "can't" wear that outfit, I wear it two days in a row just to show I can.

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  2. I, too, am so annoyed by those click-baity pieces of crap. 😂 And websites whose content might be worth a casual glance if they weren't so obnoxious to navigate. Also the false download buttons. 😭

    I am pretty bemused by the pot-related advertising that's popped up here, and it's not even decriminalized yet! It's weird at least in part because we have strict laws against alcohol and tobacco advertising, so I never see any of that. But maujuana, so far, is a loophole, and it's already legal if you have a prescription... 😂

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    1. Medical marijuana has been swallowed up and killed by legal. Granted, a lot of them were bogus clinics, but even some of the legit ones got caught up and mown over. A pal's dad used to be a limo driver for a service, now he does nothing but weed tours. Otherwise, life is not much different. Smoking is still considered icky, and weed smoking is just so damn STANKY. It's dead skunk level stank.
      I'm still in love with your floor. Kids, go look at her blog. Her floor is my dream floor. Dreamy!

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  3. I laughed out loud at, " I love my tacky tshirts. Who are you, my mother?" Sometimes I look down at what I'm wearing and think, "I'm 43 years old." And then I shrug. Because who cares?

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  4. Also thanks for the link to Ghostery! I've just installed it. Wow. Interesting data!

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    1. I love Ghostery, mostly so I can read about the apps they are targeting. Because I might need some of them for work...I don't think that was the reason Spouse gave me the info on it though...

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  5. yuck. by the by. You know you can click out of bloglovin's stupid send me weekly/daily fashion emails or other thinks. it works!

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  6. I saw your "thinky thoughts" comment on Pao's page and I thought, "I need to know who this is!!" Thinky thoughts are right up my ally. I fell in love with Mel at Bag and a Beret initially because she used the word harridan. I'm a sucker for great words and the will to use them. So to quote the great Austin Powers, "Allow myself to introduce myself!" I don't have any tech skills whatsoever so I can't follow you or suggest you follow me, but I will bookmark your site because I love intelligence run amok, especially when it involves sewing.

    Ummm...that's all I've got for the moment.

    Thank you for being you. XO

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    1. "No, thank YOU". I love words very much. You nailed me on the 'running amok' part, I confess it's true. I have much more aspiration than accomplishment in sewing. Like Beckett "Fail more. Fail better"
      (and thank you for the kind words)

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Thanks for reading! I love your comments, I love your ideas, I love your recipes, but if you post links to advertising, I will delete your comment.