Desperation 2.0
Remember when everybody and their brother made a little website with lots of “under construction” signs and excessive use of the <blink> tag? No? Lucky you.
Of course, these times are long over, now everybody has their own blog, and facebook, and myspace, and, uhm yeah, twitter. Of course, woe is yours when you realize nobody wants to read what you had for lunch. Or dinner. Or that you went to the store and bought toilet paper (gasp! on sale!)…
But thankfully, if you have a few bucks to spare, you can always count on Google Adsense to spread the word of your oh-so-boring personal updates across the globe. Like this gentleman, who decided to show ads on people’s Gmail accounts, in order to get more readers to his twitter account:
Now considering he is deeming himself an “online media” expert — couldn’t he have guessed that this kind of self-promotion is a huge cyber-turnoff?
Dear slowing economy, could you free the Internet from this and similar “SEO” annoyances in 2009, please? Probably as likely as the hell freezing over or the spammers running out of money, but one can always hope.
Come on, give him his 15 minutes of fame
Oh, and by the way, I don’t even see ads in GMail. Thanks, AdBlock Firefox extension!
Oh. Actually my Adblock Plus does not remove the ads in GMail. Maybe we subscribe to different filter lists?
My GMail shows “sponsorded links” next to the e-mail on the right side. Those are blocked by the
mail.google.com#div(class^=yx)
filter rule. I have a filter subscription for “Cédrics Liste”.