DogsOfWar

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Dogs of War was born in a crossfire hurricane. He wrestles alligators in the pouring rain.

Why Responsive AdSense Ads Don’t Work and How to Fix Them

Google_Adsense_logoResponsive advertising sounds like a great idea and there are some helpful tutorials on how to set it up with AdSense. The only problem is that it doesn’t work. Not in the sense that you can’t get the ads to show up at the right size for the screen, but in that none of the advertisers have inventory for those ad sizes. Here’s how it breaks down. Continue reading

Why I Disabled AdBlock and How it Could Be Done Better

Adblockplus_iconI was an Adblock Plus user for as long as I can remember. But Adblock comes at a price, the sites that provide content can’t do it for free.

It’s true that Adblock made the web a much simpler place with far less clutter, no shouting flashing banners and annoying giant yellow bouncing things. For a long time I thought I was an ethical ad blocker because I disabled on sites that I frequented and liked, but otherwise I kept the default setting as block all ads for all other sites. But I was still visiting those other sites when I would Google something and land somewhere. Some of those sites provided me with valuable information, but I wasn’t doing my part to help them stay in existence. Continue reading