I’ve had a bit of a falling out with Google Adsense over porn.
You will notice that the world famous award winning christopherengland.com is now commercial free. And, to be honest, the Adsense ads weren’t really making more than a few pennies a week anyway, so, am I bovvered?
Nope!
So, how did we fall out?
Well, it was over this post from back in January 2011, that’s nearly a year and a half ago…
When is a caterpillar not a caterpillar?
…when it’s some bums on holiday.
Now then, one man’s porn is another one’s … well, 5 guys mooning at a camera whilst precariously balanced on top of each other at some holiday resort, looking like a caterpillar. But, apparently it’s adult material, and Adsense won’t supply ads for sites with adult material.
This gives me two choices. One is that I can nervously self-censor and be extremely careful what I put here just in case it breaks the rules of what they’ll wrap their adverts around. Two is that I can say ‘fuck it’ and just carry on being me speaking how I see it, but without the annoying ads.
I’ve picked the freedom of expression option.
As I mentioned, they weren’t really making any great monies to syphon off to my offshore accounts. The reason being that most of the adverts were for the complete opposite of my stance on life, the universe and everything, or the content of articles here. I mean, I am a man-made climate change sceptic, yet my articles about that subject would carry adverts for green and eco-shite and climate change alarmism. Or my articles moaning about the evil that is religion would carry supporting advertising for Bibles.
I mean, who, reading and being on side with me is going to click through the highly financed adverts for the complete opposite of what I’m ranting about? That’s right, nobody really.
The reason why there are no ads being served that are sympathetic to my more provocative articles is that the people with my perspective or point of view are generally not highly financed and so can’t afford to pay Google Adsense any money for advertising. Compare and contrast the extremely highly funded eco-loonies and Bible bashers, who have so much cash that they can buy an obscene amount of advertising and promotion for their respective cults.
So, there we have it. We are now commercial free.

