They finally got to me, the ad's did. I was viewing my SourceForge.net account and realized just how annoying all the ad's were. So I dug a little (didn't have to dig very far) and found an easy solution to block Google ad's, as well as other ad's, using the Adblock Firefox Extension. However, the solution explaining how to block Google text ad's didn't work for blocking SourceForge.net Google ad's. I had to add these additional sites to the Adblock list:
https://genweb.ostg.com/google/ads/*
https://google-ssl-2.ostg.com/pagead/*
Of course, I can't even see my own Google ad's now that I'm using the extension, but it's easy enough to enable/disable. While I'm talking about ad's, I might as well mention that since I added Google AdSense ad's to my blog two months ago, I've made a whopping $1.29! It's not much, but its more than I would have made if I didn't add them. 🙂 There is still an amazing amount of traffic coming in to my basement project page from people doing searches on Google for "dig out basement". My post is 10th in the search result.
Never understood ads….
If we click on the ads on your site, do you make a few pennies per click? If so, I’ll click every now-and-then if it helps you out.
Legally, I’m not allowed to answer that question. And Google has been known to shut down peoples’ AdSense accounts for breaking their rules, so I will simply say, “Thanks”. 🙂