Two Charioteers have questioned me about advertisements appearing on The Chariot.
WordPress reserve the right to place adverts on free blogs, but ever since we began we have noticed that –
- They never appear when one is logged in.
- They sometimes, but not always, appear when one is not logged in.
If you are still seeing adverts after you have logged in, please let me know so that I can ask for clarification from WordPress. We have no control over which adverts are displayed, or whether or not they appear.
A plea to Val
Please will you cease deleting your posts within a few hours of publishing them. Of course you have every right to do so, but it is most disconcerting to go to re-read an interesting comment, or to have another squiz at your excellent photographs, only to find that yesterday’s post has disappeared without trace.
It also has the effect of removing your gravatar from the “Authors’ Archives”, and of leaving a large number of enormous image files orphaned within the media store.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Here’s what WordPress say –
Advertisements can be totally suppressed for $30/year, but I’m already paying for Custom CSS and for the charioteers.org domain and the redirect, so I’m not over-keen on spending any more. 🙄
I have to confess, Bearsy, that I have never seen an advert on the Chariot.
I do use AdBlock, but I’m not sure if this is relevant.
PS. With regard to your plea to Val, I was saddened to find her latest post had vanished. I found it touching, and said so, but I cannot think that my comment caused her to delete the post.
Well, I hope not. 😦
Can I add my plea to Val! I don’t always have time to comment on posts when they first appear and I like to go back and make a comment later. 🙂
Thanks Araminta.
I don’t think AdBlock would affect ‘internal’ WordPress ads, but perhaps it does. We have never seen any after logging in.
Hello Bearsy. I removed my post ‘Life is’ of yesterday because most had commented kindly and, as the day had been a rather upsetting one anyway, I didn’t really really want to add to it further. I do apologise, it won’t happen again.
There shouldn’t be any orphaned photographs, oversized, or otherwise, of mine in the media store, as I’ve removed them all.
Cheers Val – especially for the removal of orphaned piccies! 🙂
Thanks Val. 😀
Hello Bearsy: No ads when logged in. Ads when not logged in are limited to one ad after the first post on the page. A static ad, no crawlies. Mine are all ‘merican and as far as I recall all places I have shopped or visited on the internet. Certainly not worth paying to get rid of them.
“Advertisements can be totally suppressed for $30/year, but I’m already paying for Custom CSS and for the charioteers.org domain and the redirect, so I’m not over-keen on spending any more.”
I’m surprised to read this and I’m sure a few others will be as well. Had no idea you were delving into your pocket for this site, Bearsy, I was under the impression they were all free (I never read fine print or manuals). For this info I applaud both you and Boadicea for running the Chariot. It must be quite time-consuming as well. For the rest of us we can take a breather from time to time whilst an administrator’s job is never done.
OK, enough genuflecting. 🙂
The ads don’t bother me, though I find it incredible how they’re programmed to the individual user. I’m sure I’m the only one on here who receives adverts about tractors. 🙂
Hello TR. Google (and no doubt other search engines), is remarkable how in its ability to analyse every search you make and filter in or out the information it deems relevant to you. The results can obviously be quite useful but they can work against you as well. For example, suppose you are looking at buying a flight on line to Rome, leaving and returning on particular dates. The first time you look, you will probably get the standard flight. But, by the third or 4th time, the airline will have been notified via Google’s search, that you are really keen on those dates and will therefore put the price up. Likewise, if you do a search on high adventure in the Himalayas, or the Amazon or somewhere, you may just find your insurance premiums being hiked.
If two people, say a man and his wife do a search on Google at the same time on the same subject, eg BP from their own computers, one will be returned a page of articles that might be geared more towards the financial performance of the company while the other may get a page geared more towards its environmental performance.
Big Brother Is Watching You.
Bearsy and I get different adverts on MyT – all Australian, but quite different.
I like the ads 🙂
’cause they tell me when WordPress of Firefox have logged me out! I hate it if I map out a comment in my mind, go to add my comment and the box isn’t there!
By the way, I don’t see them on the home page, ever.
Bearsy, did you try the free CLT20 free TV?