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Comment by indigodaddy | Hacker News Reader

Man the ads on that site really take away from the ambiance/feel of an otherwise very pleasant site.

Thanks for the feedback. Yes Google Ads are implemented :( On PC you can avoid it by installing uBlock Origin plugin and on the mobile phone you can setup private DNS from AdGuard or NextDNS. I was using both and for me AdGuard is great solution. You don't need to install any aps in Android or iPhone there is a field in settings called Private DNS/DNS. Google ADS cover my server maintenance. Maybe in the future I will remove ads from the website. I tried to arrange them so that they were not too intrusive, but this is Google and squeezes them everywhere :)

Which ads? Even after disabling my ad blocker I can't spot any.

On mobile.

https://ibb.co/RY6HBPF

Is this just Google placing ads on any page I go to outside of the control of the destination site? If so, holy bejeezus I had no idea this was a thing.

I just checked, it's embedding the Google Ads tag so you are right. I probably just didn't see it because I'm using NextDNS, forgot about that. Google does not just inject ads without the page owner setting it up.

For many years I didn't use any ADS on that blog. From some time I am using Google ADS and I don't make millions, however, the profits from these ads, although small, cover server maintenance costs and pay off the time spent on writing. I was convinced that everyone uses blockers and only bots make me profitable ;) If there are more negative comments about the ads, I will opt out of them.

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