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RE: It's Not Just Online

Comment comment by gnifyus on 18 March 2008

I expected more responses defending the income Omninerd gets from these ads as justifying the crap.

I really don't think it even reaches that level of moderation. The ads are more or less chosen automatically from some sort of pool supplied by Google and based on a search of "keywords" on the displayed Omninerd page. To quote from the link : "Google AdSense matches ads to your site's content, and you earn money whenever your visitors click on them."

No Omninerd input as to what these ads might actually be as far as I know.

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RE: It's Not Just Online by VnutZ :: NR8

No Omninerd input as to what these ads might actually be as far as I know.

Nope - we really don't have any say as to what AdSense displays. At least I don't think so, I'm not the one managing the AdSense account! But when you look at ad pools like Google and Yahoo, it's a safer bet that you're not going to get some XSS or similar attack from their system than from privately arranged ads (unless we store the ad content).

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